Heart 2009;95:1798-1800
Technology and guidelines
Endovascular stent-grafts for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms: NICE technology appraisal guidance
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, London, UK
Correspondence to Professor D Barnett, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, London WC1V 6NA, UK; david.barnett@nice.org.uk
Accepted 18 June 2009
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on the use of endovascular stent-grafts (EVAR) for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms was published in February 2009.1 This technology appraisal guidance should be read in conjunction with the NICE interventional procedure guidance on stent-graft placement in abdominal aortic aneurysm (interventional procedure guidance 163).2 EVAR is recommended as a treatment option for patients with unruptured infra-renal abdominal aortic aneurysms, for whom surgical intervention (open surgical repair or endovascular aneurysm repair) is considered appropriate.
The decision on whether EVAR is preferred to open surgical repair should be made jointly by the patient and his/her clinician after assessment of a number of factors including:
- aneurysm size and morphology
- patient age, general life expectancy and fitness for open surgery
- the short-term and long-term benefits and risks of the procedures including aneurysm-related mortality and operative mortality.
EVAR should only be performed in specialist
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