Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm [PDF]
History of present illness: A 69-year-old male with poorly controlled hypertension presented with 1 hour of severe low back pain that radiated to his abdomen. The patient was tachycardic and had an initial blood pressure of 70/40. He had a rigid and severely tender abdomen.
Andrusaitis, Jessica, Peña, Jonathan
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Experience of a tutor centric model for sonography training of emergency department registrars in an Australian urban emergency department 2009–2012 [PDF]
Purpose: To assess the impact of a regular sonographer proctored training program for emergency medicine trainees in the use of Emergency Department bedside ultrasound Methods: Emergency Department (ED) Registrars in the Swan District Hospital ED were ...
Fear, Mark +2 more
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Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms [PDF]
AbstractEur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 25, 377-379 (2003)
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Fenestrated Endovascular Aneurysm Repair versus Snorkel Endovascular Aneurysm Repair: Competing yet Complementary Strategies. [PDF]
Juxtarenal/pararenal aortic aneurysms and type IV thoracoabdominal aneurysms pose particular technical challenges for endovascular repair as they involve the visceral segment in addition to insufficient infrarenal neck for the use of standard ...
Yoon, William J
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Using multiple classifiers for predicting the risk of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair re-intervention through hybrid feature selection. [PDF]
Feature selection is essential in medical area; however, its process becomes complicated with the presence of censoring which is the unique character of survival analysis.
Attallah, O +7 more
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Angiogenesis in abdominal aortic aneurysms
To determine the degree of neovascularisation in the wall of abdominal aortic aneurysms in comparison to atherosclerotic control aortas, and to correlate the angiogenic response with the extent of the cellular inflammatory infiltrate.Histopathological study.Aortic samples were obtained from patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms and from ...
Thompson, MM +4 more
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Immune Modulation as a Treatment for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms [PDF]
In the United States, over 200,000 new patients are diagnosed with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) each year. Consequently, over 40,000 highly morbid aortic reconstructions are performed each year to prevent aneurysm rupture, a catastrophic event ...
Murphy, Michael P., Wang, S. Keisin
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Micromanaging Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms [PDF]
The contribution of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) disease to human morbidity and mortality has increased in the aging, industrialized world. In response, extraordinary efforts have been launched to determine the molecular and pathophysiological characteristics of the diseased aorta.
Ryuji Toh +6 more
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Hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm ligation after orthotopic liver transplantation-a report of 7 cases [PDF]
Pseudoaneurysm (PA) is a rare but life-threatening complication of liver transplantation. The authors present their experience on 7 patients treated by ligation of a post-OLT PA.
Gordon, R +7 more
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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms [PDF]
Of 141 patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic from 1950 through 1959 who were not operated on, follow-up information was obtained from 137 patients (97.1 per cent). Of those followed 1 year or more, 87.6 per cent survived 1 year or more; 52.5 per cent survived 3 years, and 36.4 per cent survived 5 years after diagnosis ...
Irwin J. Schatz +2 more
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