Sentence examples for secondary conversion from inspiring English sources

This report describes our experience with secondary conversion (delayed explantation) of failed infrarenal AAA endografts.

Secondary conversion was associated with a perioperative mortality of 27%, and when performed for rupture 50%.

Conclusion: both primary conversion and secondary conversion for rupture carry a high operative mortality.

In one case, secondary conversion to open repair was necessary 14 months postoperatively.

Five deaths occurred in the follow-up period, and three patients needed secondary conversion to open repair 2, 3, and 14 months after initial endografting.

We report herein a review of all patients initially enrolled in multicenter US clinical trials of the Excluder endograft who underwent secondary conversion to open surgical repair.

In 38 patients conversion was performed during the first postoperative month (primary conversions) and in 11 patients during follow-up (secondary conversions).

Secondary conversions were performed for rupture in six and for a persistent endoleak, with or without aneurysmal growth, in five patients.

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There were no statistically significant differences in rate of secondary procedures, conversion to open repair, or migration.

Long-term adverse event rates (endoleaks, secondary procedures, conversion, rupture, and death) were assessed.One year after endograft implantation, LM > or =5 mm was present in 16 (27%) patients; 44 (73%) endografts demonstrated no lateral movement.