**Meet the editor**

Igor Koncar works at the Serbian Clinical Center and Belgrade Medical School. His Master's thesis (2009) was "Early and long-term results of carotid graft replacement" and his PhD thesis (2017) was "Biomechanical and biochemical basis of AAA rupture" from the Medical School of Belgrade University. He has published more than 100 PubMed publications and 8 book chap-

ters. His special interests are the treatment of aortic diseases and education of vascular surgeons. He is the chair of the Vascular Scientific Committee of the European Society for Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, a member of the Guideline Committee of the European Society for Vascular Surgery, and the General Secretary of the Serbian Society for Cardiovascular Surgery.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Zerrin Pulathan

Karel Houdek

and Vladislav Třeška

Krzysztof Szaniewski

**Section 3 Complications after EVAR 121**

Daniel Dobes

**Section 1 Research of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm 1**

Stella Lioudaki and Christos Ioannou

Chapter 3 **Experiment and Animal Models of AAA 41**

**Section 2 Preoperative Planning and Dilemas 59**

Chapter 4 **Planning and Sizing with OsiriX/Horos 61** Giovani José Dal Poggetto Molinari

Chapter 5 **Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and Malignancies 83**

Chapter 6 **Difficult Neck in Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) 103**

Chapter 7 **Treatment of the Progressive Endoleak Type 2 After EVAR 123**

Chapter 1 **Biomechanic and Hemodynamic Perspectives in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Rupture Risk Assessment 3**

Chapter 2 **Experimental Models in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm 21**

Nikolaos Kontopodis, Konstantinos Tzirakis, Emmanouil Tavlas,

Jiří Moláček, Karel Houdek, Petr Novák, Jan Baxa, Václav Opatrný
