Endovascular or Open Repair Strategy for Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Thirty-Day Outcomes from IMPROVE Randomised Trial

Endovascular repair for rAAA has emerged as a treatment strategy for anatomically suitable patients with rAAA. This has been on the basis of observational studies which have suggested that repair of rAAA with EVAR may be associated with lower perioperative mortality than repair of rAAA with open techniques. However, observational studies do not consider individual center expertise and this potentially influences selection of patients and...