UK EVAR Trials Published and Presented at Charing Cross Symposium
April 11, 2010 — Principal investigator Professor Roger Greenhalgh, MD, and trial manager Louise C. Brown, PhD, presented the 10-year follow-up results from the United Kingdom's EVAR 1 and EVAR 2 trials of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) versus open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) at the Charing Cross International Symposium in London. The findings were also published online ahead of print in the New England Journal of Medicine. EVAR 1 studied patients deemed fit for open surgical repair, and EVAR 2 studied patients deemed unfit for open surgical repair.