Results from the Prospective Registry of Endovascular Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (RETA): Mid Term Results to Five Years

Registry data provides useful information to guide the design of more formal trials. Collecting follow up from voluntarily submitted data is difficult. The registry data remains well ahead of the trial data, but indicate that long term follow up is required in these trials, because of the high rate of complications seen at follow up.