GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon-Expandable Endoprostheses as a Bridging Stent With Branched and Fenestrated Endografts in the Endovascular Treatment of Aortic Aneurysms: Protocol for a Retrospective Multicenter Registry (EMBRACE Study)

Pietro Dioni   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Anders Wanhainen   ² , MD ;   Jacob Budtz-Lilly   ³ , MD ;   Nuno Dias   ⁴ , MD ;   Tab Bonny   ⁵ , MD ;   Luca Bertoglio   ¹ , MD ;   EMBRACE study investigator   ^{5 *}

¹ Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences (DSCS), University and ASST Spedali Civili Hospital of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

² Department of Surgical Sciences, Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

³ Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

⁴ Vascular Center Malmö, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

⁵ W. L. Gore & Associates (United States), Flagstaff, AZ, United States

*these authors contributed equally