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Abdominal aortic aneurysms

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2018
An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a localized dilatation of the infrarenal aorta. AAA is a multifactorial disease, and genetic and environmental factors play a part; smoking, male sex and a positive family history are the most important risk factors, and AAA is most common in men >65 years of age.
Natzi Sakalihasan, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Athanasios Katsargyris   +2 more
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Giant abdominal aortic aneurysms [PDF]

Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques, 2021
Giant abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are defined as AAAs >10 to 13 cm in the maximum transverse diameter. We have described a case of a patient who had presented for open repair of an 18-cm AAA and a review of reported cases of giant AAAs >10 cm in ...
Joshua I. Ng, BSE, Tuong Nguyen, MD, Anand Tarpara, MD, Dawn Salvatore, MD, FACS, Paul DiMuzio, MD, FACS, Babak Abai, MD, FACS   +5 more
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Hospital incidence and mortality of patients treated for abdominal aortic aneurysms in Switzerland – a secondary analysis of Swiss DRG statistics data

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2022
AIM OF THE STUDY: To analyse hospital incidence and in-hospital mortality of patients treated for abdominal aortic aneurysms in Switzerland. METHODS: Secondary data analysis of case-related hospital discharge data of the Swiss Federal Statistical ...
Lorenz Meuli, Anna-Leonie Menges, Klaus Steigmiller, Andreas Kuehnl, Benedikt Reutersberg, Ulrike Held, Alexander Zimmermann   +6 more
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Chronic Atherothrombosis in a Sub-Massive Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in a 91-Year-Old White Male Donor

Diagnostics, 2022
Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms became the standard of care in 2005, yet screening procedures continue to be underutilized. While improvements in mortality rates have been noted over the past 15 years, continued patient mortality from ruptured ...
Andrea Sparks, Scott Oplinger, Elizabeth Maynes, Keiko Meshida, Maria Ximena Leighton, Gary Wind, Guinevere Granite   +6 more
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Endovascular Repair of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in COVID 19 Pandemic

Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Journal, 2022
Abdominal aortic aneurysms are pathological dilatations of the abdominal aorta that occur because of unknown causes and are associated with cardiovascular risk factors excluding diabetes.
Lubna Alrowaili, Alvaro Balcazar, Owayed Al Shammeri   +2 more
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Brucella-infected abdominal aortic aneurysm: management strategies for an uncommon aneurysm

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
ObjectiveThe occurrence of Brucella-induced abdominal aortic aneurysms is an exceedingly rare phenomenon, yet it stands as one of the most severe complications within this context.
Huibo Ma, Yuling Yang, Huanhuan Liu, Xiaozhi Sun, Yongxin Li, Mingjin Guo   +5 more
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Abdominal aortic aneurysm [PDF]

The Lancet, 1997
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Vliet, J.A. van der, Boll, A.P.M.
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Features of Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms with a Horseshoe Kidney

Український журнал серцево-судинної хірургії, 2022
Introduction. Reconstructive surgery of abdominal aortic aneurysms, despite significant international experience, remains one of the most complex issues of current vascular surgery, especially due to anatomical variability of arterial blood supply of the
Ihor I. Kobza, Yuliya S. Mota, Taras I. Kobza   +2 more
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The synergistic mechanism of fibroblast growth factor 18 and integrin β1 in rat abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2022
Background Abdominal aortic aneurysms have a high mortality rate. While surgery is the preferred treatment method, the biological repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms is being increasingly studied.
Yilong Guo, Ren Wei, Yuan He, Hongpeng Zhang, Jianqing Deng, Wei Guo   +5 more
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Prevalenceof abdominal aortic aneurysm among stage 3-4 chronic kidney disease patients aged 55 years and older

Український Журнал Нефрології та Діалізу, 2020
The risk of cardiovascular disease begins to increase from the early stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Abdominal aortic aneurysms are the most common arterial aneurysms of peripheral arterial diseases.
O. Karaarslan Cengiz, G. Nergizoglu
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