The rationale for offering elective repair to specific patient subgroups with an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm <5.5 cm

Schlieder et al1Schlieder I. Kontopidis I. Blackwood S. Krol E. Dietzek A. Increasing disparity between SVS guidelines for AAA repair and real world practice.J Vasc Surg. 2020 September 1; ([E-pub ahead of print])PubMed Google Scholar reported that 2110 of 5314 patients (40%) who had undergone infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair from 2003 to 2015 had had an AAA <5.5 cm. Although the 2018 Society for Vascular Surgery guidelines have...