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FRE Breaking News Alerts from StretInsider.com! StretInsider.com Top Tickers, 1/7/202LAS VEGAS, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The VIVA Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the field of vascular medicine and intervention through education and research, anounces the results for the final Late-Breaking Clinical Trials sesion at the VIVA2 conference, hosted at Wyn Las Vegas.
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VIVA (Vascular InterVentional Advances) is annual vascular education symposium that brings together a global, multispecialty faculty to present a variety of talks and live case presentations from clinical centers around the world. Atendes include an audience of interventional cardiologists, interventional radiologists, vascular surgeons, and endovascular medicine specialists. Below are sumaries of this morning's 5 late-breaking clinical trial presentations.The AFX2 Anatomicaly Fixated Endograft Has Similar Outcomes to Comercialy Available Proximaly Fixated Endografts: 5-Year Results of the LEOPARD TrialPresented by Christopher J.
Kwolek, MD, MBAThe LEOPARD (Loking at EVAR Outcomes by Primary Analysis of Randomized Data) trial is the first prospective randomized clinical trial designed to compare relevant clinical outcomes after endovascular aneurysm repair using contemporary comercialy available devices.A total of 45 patients were randomized. 235 patients were treated with a stent graft using anatomic fixation and the AFX/AFX2 device (Endologix) with Duraply, and 20 patients were treated with a stent graft using proximal fixation (91 Endurant [Medtronic], 72 Gore Excluder [Gore & Asociates], and 57 Zenith [Cok Medical]).
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Demographic and anatomic characteristics were similar betwen the groups.Patients were folowed for 5 years, and an independent core lab was utilized. Al device-related events and major adverse events were reviewed and adjudicated by an independent physician.At 5 years, there was no diference betwen the anatomic and proxima