Diseases Of The Aorta

Andrew W. Hoel, MD, is Assistant Professor of Surgery (Vascular Surgery), in the Depar tment of Surgery at Nor thwestern Universit y Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Mark K. Eskandari, MD is the James S.T. Yao, MD, PhD, Professor of Education in Vascular Surger y and a Professor of Radiology and Cardiology. He is also Chief, Division of Vascular Surger y in the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.

Preface
Contributors
Section I . Perspectives on the Nor thwestern Symposium
1. 40th Anniversary of the Northwestern Vascular Symposium-A Reflection James S.T. Yao, MD, PhD
2. 30 Years of Excellence Mark K. Eskandari, MD Section II . Aneurysm Repair in the Endovascular Era
3. An Assessment of Repair Trends of Abdominal Aor tic Aneurysm Disease Zachar y J. Wanken, MD and Bjoern D. Suckow, MD, MS
4. Streamlining EVAR for Ruptured Aneurysms Claire Matsumura and Jon S. Matsumura, MD
Section III . Patient Factors in Aor tic Disease
5. Abdominal Aor tic Aneurysms in Women Ulka Sachdev, MD and Jean Starr, MD
6. Genetic Impact on Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms Bulat A . Ziganshin, MD and John F. Elefteriades, MD
7. The Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Jesse A. Columbo, MD and David H. Stone, MD
8. Inflammatory Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Rober t Jason T. Perry, MD and Kenneth J. Cherry, MD
Section IV. Anatomic Factors in Aortic and Iliac Disease
9. Management of Internal Iliac Artery Aneurysms Vivek S. Prakash, BS and Heron E. Rodriguez, MD
10. Effects of Out flow Obstruction and Intraluminal Thrombus on Rupture of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Jef frey D. Crawford, MD; Gregor y L. Moneta, MD; Sandra Rugonyi, PhD; and Amir F. Azarbal, MD
11 . Management of Isolated Chronic Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Dissections Christopher M. Faries, BA and Rami O. Tadros, MD
Section V. Techniques Facilitating Endovascular Aortic Repair
12. Percutaneous Endovascular Aor tic Aneurysm Repair: Predictors of Failure Albeir Y. Mousa, MD; Mike Broce, BA; and Ramez Mourkos
13. Benefits and Pit falls of Upper Extremity Access for Fenestrated EVAR Joseph Karam, MD, and Luis A. Sanchez, MD
14. Utility of IVUS for EVAR and TEVAR Charles C. Leithead, MD and William D. Jordan, Jr., MD
Section VI . Challenges EVAR: The Aortic Neck and Endoleaks
15. Aortic Neck Enlargement af ter EVAR: Balloon-Expandable versus Self-Expanding Dainis Krievins, MD, PhD; Janis Savlovskis, MD; and Christopher K. Zarins, MD
16. Recognition and Management of Late Type III Endoleaks Joseph J. Salfity, MD and Gary W. Lemmon, MD
17. Management of Type 1A Endoleaks with Polymer-Based Grafts Rober t F. Cuf f, MD and Michael F. Knox, MD