CORRESPONDENCE: Aneurysm Diameter

Aortic aneurysm diameter and risk of cardiovascular mortality.

After successful surgical repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, patients have for many years an increased risk of death from cardiovascular causes. We have tested the hypothesis that for patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms, the risk of nonaneurysm cardiovascular mortality before and after surgery increased with aneurysm diameter. Records of aneurysm repair or rupture and mortality were a...

Endovascular aneurysm repair at 5 years: Does aneurysm diameter predict outcome?

OBJECTIVE The appropriate size threshold for endovascular repair of small abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) is unclear. We studied the outcome of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) as a function of preoperative aneurysm diameter to determine the relationship between aneurysm size and long-term outcome of endovascular repair. METHODS We reviewed the results of 923 patients treated in a prospec...

Osteoprotegerin is associated with aneurysm diameter and proteolysis in abdominal aortic aneurysm disease.

OBJECTIVE Serum osteoprotegerin (OPG) concentrations have previously been associated with growth of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). In vitro experiments showed that OPG promotes matrix metalloprotease (MMP) release from monocytes and vascular smooth muscle cells. We hypothesized that OPG expression is increased in human AAAs and is associated with proteolysis. METHODS AND RESULTS AAA biops...

Relation between endoleak development and aneurysm diameter in patients with abdominal aorta aneurysm treated with endovascular repair

Large-diameter inferior mesenteric artery in a case involving a ruptured common iliac artery aneurysm

We report a case of a large-diameter inferior mesenteric artery (IMA) that was associated with an occluded superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and a celiac artery (CA) that had significant stenosis in a 79-year-old man with a ruptured right common iliac artery aneurysm. Nonenhanced computed tomography (CT) was performed at another hospital to examine his sudden abdominal pain; it showed the ruptur...