Ricerc@Sapienza

n everyday clinical practice, an abdominal wall hernia (AWH) is rarely considered an expression or predictor of aortic aneurysmal disease; on the contrary, it should be. Actually, although rare, the association between primary AWH (including umbilical, paraumbilical, epigastric, Spigelian, inguinal and femoral hernia) and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) represents a pathological duality which has drawn the attention of the medical community for the clinical originality of presentation and implication.

Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate early-, mid-, and long-term outcomes in an unselected population of patients treated for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) by endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) with different commercially available off-the-shelf devices. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on a prospectively compiled computerized database on patients presenting an infrarenal AAA treated between January 2008 and December 2015 in a high-volume Italian tertiary referral Center.