Main characteristics of the included studies
| Trial |
Treatments |
Patients |
Methods |
INSTEAD, 2009
NCT00525356
|
thoracic endovascular repair (TEVAR) with a stent graft plus optimal medical therapy
versus
optimum medical management
|
patients with stable uncomplicated type-B aortic dissection (dissection of the descending aorta)
|
follow-up 2 y
n=72/68
Parallel groups
open
|
References
INSTEAD, 2009 :
Nienaber CA, Rousseau H, Eggebrecht H, Kische S, Fattori R, Rehders TC, Kundt G, Scheinert D, Czerny M, Kleinfeldt T, Zipfel B, Labrousse L, Ince HRandomized Comparison of Strategies for Type B Aortic Dissection. The INvestigation of STEnt grafts in Aortic Dissection (INSTEAD) Trial.
Circulation 2009;:
[PMID 19996018]