Results of endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms

According to the principles of minimal invasive surgery a reduced operative trauma and complication rate are the main goals of endovascular aneurysm exclusion. From July 1996 to August 1999 we found 75 patients eligible for endovascular aneurysm therapy. The procedure was primarily successful in 95 % of the patients. In the first time we had to switch to open surgery in 4 patients. There was 1 procedure related death. Most frequent later complications were graft occlusion (9.7 %) and type I, II and III leakages (14.1 %), which were partially repaired using endovascular techniques and partially by use of open surgery. In a selected group of patients the middle term results of infrarenal aneurysm therapy by endovascular stent graft implantation are promising.