{"id":8498,"date":"2018-07-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/31\/total-open-repairs-decline-for-abdominal-aortic-aneurysms\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T16:06:38","slug":"total-open-repairs-decline-for-abdominal-aortic-aneurysms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/31\/total-open-repairs-decline-for-abdominal-aortic-aneurysms\/","title":{"rendered":"Total, Open Repairs Decline for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Branched-fenestrated EVAR rapidly disseminated into national practice since 2011<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, July 31, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The number of open abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repairs dropped by almost 80 percent during the last decade, according to a study published in the June issue of the <i>Journal of Vascular Surgery<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Bjoern D. Suckow, M.D., from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and colleagues used Medicare Part B claims to analyze trends in open AAA repair, endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), and branched-fenestrated EVAR for AAA among Medicare beneficiaries from 2003 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that after a peak number of 32,540 was performed in 2005, the total number of AAA repairs performed in fee-for-service Medicare patients declined by 26 percent from 31,582 to 23,421 (P < 0.001) over the study period. Furthermore, the number of open AAA repairs declined from 20,533 in 2003 to 4,916 in 2013 (P < 0.001). The number of EVARs increased from 11,049 in 2003 to 19,247 in 2011 (P < 0.001), but then declined to 16,362 repairs in 2013 (P < 0.001). The number of branched-fenestrated EVAR cases continued to rise following its introduction in 2011, from 335 procedures in 2011 to 2,143 procedures in 2013 (P < 0.001).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These results suggest that open AAA repair is now performed too infrequently to be used as a metric in the assessment of hospital and surgeon quality in cardiovascular care,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jvascsurg.org\/article\/S0741-5214(17)32510-7\/fulltext\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branched-fenestrated EVAR rapidly disseminated into national practice since 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-8498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}