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 e xclusion. From July 1996 to August 1999 we found 75 patients eligible for e ndovascular 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 complica tions 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 re sults of infrarenal aneurysm therapy by endovascular stent graft implantati on are promising.