The First Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair (EVAR)

Tomorrow begins the 14th Annual VIVA meeting in Las Vegas. The whole field of endovascular repair and intervention has grown exponentially since the first VIVA meetings. For example, the first endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm was performed by Dr. Juan Parodi in 1990, but it took quite some time to be accepted as a standard of care. Today the endovascular approach is the preferred procedure to repair an AAA and this is because of the advances in medical devices and dedication of physicians to this less invasive non-surgical approach, physicians who will be attending this year's VIVA meeting.
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