Abstract
Since its inception in the 1990s, endovascular aortic repair has quickly replaced
traditional open aortic repair (OAR) as the most common method for elective treatment
of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). After numerous iterations and failures of different
endografts, the technology has undergone dramatic improvements with evidence pointing
to this technology serving as a safe and durable modality, albeit with the requirement
of routine surveillance. Not surprisingly, the ability to treat patients with AAAs
with minimally invasive technology that could theoretically mitigate some of the risks
associated with OAR, such as aortic cross clamping and significant blood loss, was
also adopted in patients with ruptured AAAs and is now the preferred treatment method
if anatomically feasible.
Keywords
ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms - endovascular aortic repair - endovascular repair
of rAAA - interventional radiology
