Endovascular Attic Repair

Endovascular repair is a minimally invasive alternative to open surgery.

Endovascular attic repair. Endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm aaa repair is surgery to repair a widened area in your aorta. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair tevar is a procedure to treat an aneurysm in the upper part of your aorta. Endovascular repair for abdominal aortic disease evar thoracic aortic disease tevar cedars sinai s aortic program has offered this approach since 2005. Endovascular aneurysm repair evar is a type of minimally invasive endovascular surgery used to treat pathology of the aorta most commonly an abdominal aortic aneurysm aaa.

An aneurysm is a weak bulging area in the aorta wall. Our experts have access to progressive future generation stent grafts allowing repair of most complex aortic pathologies using a minimally invasive approach. Tevar is typically better tolerated by a more elderly and unwell patient cohort due to less invasive nature of stent grafting which obviates the need for thoracotomy cardiopulmonary bypass. It does not require a large incision.

Epub 2018 jun 7. Endovascular grafting is a minimally invasive method to treat an aortic aneurysm. The aorta is the large artery that carries blood to your belly pelvis and legs. With current technology over 95 of the aaa that we evaluate are repaired by evar.

National trends of thoracic endovascular aortic repair versus open repair in blunt thoracic aortic injury. Fenestrated endovascular aortic repair also known as fevar is a minimally invasive procedure that allows surgeons to repair the aorta through small incisions in your groin and or arms while still preserving blood flow to the critical branch arteries to your kidneys and other organs. Instead surgeons use a catheter based technique that allows them to fix your aorta from the inside out with the help of special x ray technology. When used to treat thoracic aortic disease the procedure is then specifically termed tevar for thoracic endovascular aortic aneurysm repair.

Experts in endovascular repair at ucla aortic center. The aorta is your body s largest artery. The application of thoracic endovascular aortic repair tevar has dramatically changed the treatment paradigm for aortic disease of the thoracic aorta. If it bursts ruptures it can be deadly.

Instead of an open aneurysm repair in which your chest abdomen are surgically opened your surgeon may consider a procedure called an endovascular aneurysm repair evar. An aortic aneurysm is when a part of this artery becomes too large or balloons outward.