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This article focuses on a study which compared in-hospital mortality rates in patients who underwent thoracic endovascular aortic repair for Stanford type B acute aortic dissections to those with open repair.

The article discusses the results of a study on dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) duration following endovascular intervention, conducted by Swagata Das and colleagues.

The article discusses research being done on the development of endovascular aneurysm repair, which references a study by R. O. Tadros et al. published in a 2014 issue of the "Journal of Vascular Surgery."

The article reports on the study conducted by Farzin Fakhry, a master's degree holder, and colleagues in 10 sites in the Netherlands which unveils the greater improvements of the combined endovascular revascularization and supervised exercise therapy in patients with intermittent claudication.

The article focuses on the stroke awareness program of the Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbytarian in Newport Beach, California. It mentions that the hospital, which is a leader in acute stroke care, offers a full array of minimally invasive endovascular techniques for both prevention and treatment of the disease. It adds that the hospital's state-of-the-art program featuring high quality inpatient care including in-house and full-time physicians who specialize in advanced stroke management.

The article informs that the newly-approved fenestrated aortic endograft for minimally-invasive endovascular repair will be performed at the Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri by Dr. Vito Mantese, one of the few vascular surgeons allowed to use the procedure.

The article discusses a study which examined the use of endovascular and open surgical approaches to revascularization in certain patients, presented at the Vascular Interventional Advances 2009 meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The article features the use of endovascular stent grafts as viable alternative for treating thoracic aortic disease. According to Mark D. Morasch, M.D., associate professor at Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, minimally invasive endovascular techniques using grafts have been developed as alternatives for the traditional open surgical management of thoracic aortic disease. Dr. Morasch also stated that endovascular technology advancement allowed patients to undergo these procedures who otherwise may not have survived treatment.

Focuses on the endovascular repair technique for fixing dangerous bulges in the biggest abdominal artery.

Presents news briefs related to medical care in Orange County, California, as of December 6, 1999. Includes Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center's receipt of government approval to use endovascular grafting to treat abdominal aortic aneurysm; UCI's research on the evolution of the influenza A virus; Projections on the number of deaths from breast cancer in the county in 2000.

Presents medical care news items in Orange County, California as of January 18, 1999. Includes Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center's implementation of the endovascular surgery in its Vascular Institute and Stroke Center; Ranking of Orange County hospitals on the quality of heart bypass surgeries; Cooper Companies Inc.'s agreement to sell Meadow Wood Hospital to Focus Healthcare LLC.