Patient Preference for Surgical Method of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Postal Survey

Patient preferences for alternative surgical techniques for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: report of a patient survey

Drug Therapy for Small Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Dear Editor,Abdominal aortic aneurysm is often asymptomatic, less recognized, and causes considerable mortality and morbidity, if missed. The incidence varies from country to country and the occurrence is influenced by modifiable (smoking, coronary heart disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and prolonged steroid therapy) and non-modifiable risk factors (increasing age, male gender, and positive...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

": common disease states that coexist with AAAs -: patobiliary, pancreatic, gastrointestinal, gyneco­ _-. ~ genitourinary disorders and structural abnormal­ :':'l ~ abdominal wall. Disease states can be broadly .:z._J as either symptomatic or asymptomatic. If an .lS'. ptomatic, but its size warrants repair and the -;. d isorder is symptomatic or life threatening, repair -" rysm should be postpo...

Preoperative evaluation of a patient for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

Coexistent cardiovascular disease is common in patients presenting for repair of aortic aneurysms. However, preoperative cardiac evaluation prior to abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery remains contentious with significant variations in practice between countries, institutions and individual anesthetists. The following case report raises some everyday issues confronting clinical anesthetists.

Redo-EVAR After Surgical Repair in Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is an adequate means for treating infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). However, secondary interventions are required in approximately 15% to 20% of patients. The aim of this paper was to report our knowledge with stent grafts in secondary interventions after EVAR in a 73-year-old patient. One of the exceptional complications of EVAR are endoleaks whic...