The Long Term Risk of Endoleak Related Complications May Be Falsely Elevated According to a Competing Risk Analysis

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¹ Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: aclara@psmar.cat.
² Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Surgery Department, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ CIBER Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Barcelona, Spain; Institut Hospital del Mar de Investigaciones Médicas (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain; Medicine Department, Universitat de Vic-Central de Catalunya, Vic, Spain.
⁵ CIBER Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Barcelona, Spain; Institut Hospital del Mar de Investigaciones Médicas (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain.

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Albert Clara et al. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2023 Mar.

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. 2023 Mar;65(3):449-450.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2022.10.041. Epub 2022 Nov 8.

¹ Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: aclara@psmar.cat.
² Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Surgery Department, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ CIBER Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Barcelona, Spain; Institut Hospital del Mar de Investigaciones Médicas (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain; Medicine Department, Universitat de Vic-Central de Catalunya, Vic, Spain.
⁵ CIBER Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Barcelona, Spain; Institut Hospital del Mar de Investigaciones Médicas (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain.

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Keywords: Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Competing risk; Cumulative incidence function; Endoleak; Kaplan–Meier; Survival.

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