Study	Reason for exclusion
Appoo 2006	Case series of 99 patients with descending thoracic aneurysms treated with first or second generation endografts (1999 ‐ 2005)
Azizzadeh 2003	Case‐control study. Analysis of 18 patients with delayed neurologic deficit after open cardiovascular surgery for thoracoabdominal or thoracic aortic repair
Bavaria 2007	Multicentre non‐randomised controlled trial of 140 consecutive patients with descending thoracic aneurysms treated with EVAR compared with 94 retrospective case series treated with open cardiovascular surgery for thoracoabdominal or thoracic aortic repair
Cambria 2002	Retrospective data on 28 patients treated with EVAR for thoracoabdominal aneurysm
Dake 1998	Prospective uncontrolled clinical trial of 103 patients treated with EVAR for thoracoabdominal aneurysms
Fattori 2006	Register data of 457 consecutive patients (113 emergency and 334 elective cases) who received an endovascular Talent device
Hassoun 2005	Ongoing, prospective non‐randomised phase II trial
Hassoun 2006	Retrospective clinical trial involving 139 patients who underwent endovascular descending thoracic aortic repair
Ince 2003	Retrospective analysis of six patients treated with EVAR for aortic aneurysm after previous coarctation surgery
Makaroun 2005	Prospective non‐randomised uncontrolled trial of 139 patients treated with Gore‐TAG device
Mitchell 1999	Prospective consecutive treatment of 103 patients with home‐made first‐generation device
Najibi 2002	Non‐randomised controlled trial of 19 patients receiving endovascular treatment and 10 historic controls receiving open surgical repair
Wheatley 2006	Non‐randomised multi‐institutional analysis of 158 consecutive patients treated with Gore‐TAG device