ALLMedicine™ Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Center

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Patient Selection and Risk Stratification in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: First Do No Harm.|2023|Mancuso E,Stather PW,|

Feb 2nd, 2023 - This study investigated whether sex-specific differences in preoperative/perioperative standard of care (SOC) account for disparity in outcomes after elective infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. This was a retrospective cohort study of el...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Background Angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockers (ARBs) have been shown to limit the growth of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), but their efficacy is controversial. This study aimed to investigate the molecular mechanism underlying the protectiv...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in 65-year-old males reduces aneurysm related mortality. Infrarenal aortic diameter (IAD) has been shown to correlate to body surface area (BSA) which could influence diagnostic criteria for AAA. This ...

Feb 1st, 2023 - The aim of this study was to summarise the current knowledge of shared decision making (SDM) in patients facing a treatment decision about an intact abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and to identify where further evidence is needed. MEDLINE, Embase...

May 23rd, 2021 - Society for Vascular Surgery implementation of clinical practice guidelines for patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm: Postoperative surveillance after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.|2021|Rokosh RS,Wu WW,Schermerhorn M,Chaikof EL,|diagnost...

Mar 31st, 2021 - The 2021 guidelines primary panel selected clinically relevant questions and produced updated recommendations, on the basis of important new findings that have emerged since the 2016 guidelines. In patients with clinical atherosclerosis, abdominal...

Feb 7th, 2021 - Society for Vascular Surgery implementation of clinical practice guidelines for patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm: Repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.|2021|Rokosh RS,Starnes BW,Chaikof EL,|diagnostic imaging,mortality,surgery,diagnost...

Dec 11th, 2019 - An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is typically defined as aortic enlargement with a diameter of 3.0 cm or larger. The prevalence of AAA has declined over the past 2 decades among screened men 65 years or older in various European countries. The c...

Dec 23rd, 2017 - Decision-making related to the care of patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is complex. Aneurysms present with varying risks of rupture, and patient-specific factors influence anticipated life expectancy, operative risk, and need to in...

Jan 31st, 2023 - Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is currently the preferred choice to treat the abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) with a feasible anatomy. However, approximately 40-60% of AAA patients presented unfavorable characteristics for EVAR, mainly due t...

Jan 10th, 2023 - Open abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair surgery is a high-risk operation, often performed on high-risk patients. Despite advancements made in diagnosis, management, surgical techniques and treatment of these patients, morbidity and mortality r...

Jan 10th, 2023 - Open surgery of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) is the reference treatment in a large number of cases. This is a heavy procedure performed in patients around 70 years of age. In post-operative open aortic surgery, a stay in aftercare and rehabili...

Jan 5th, 2023 - This randomized controlled trial aim to determine the impact on renal function after treatment for infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm with stentgrafts either with active supra- or infrarenal fixation. Individuals are planned to be included throu...

Jan 4th, 2023 - Background: Traditional open surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is burdened with complication risk from several organ systems, and also mortality figures of 3.5 - 5.5%. Over 50% of early mortality can be attributed to cardiovascular compl...

Dec 7th, 2022 - Note that some links may require subscriptions. The Leapfrog Group recognized 115 hospitals with its annual top hospital awards. Lawmakers agreed to allow language into the National Defense Authorization Act that would repeal the COVID vaccine man...

Dec 6th, 2022 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an update to its January 2022 safety communication on the use of Endologix AFX endovascular grafts to treat patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). The update includes the following new i...

Nov 15th, 2022 - Efforts to screen for ascending aortic enlargement in the general population may be improved using a new prediction model based on common clinical variables easily gathered from medical records, researchers found. The AORTA clinical score was foun...

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Jul 13th, 2022 - Mendelian randomization studies appeared to bring researchers closer to establishing a causal association between smoking and a wider range of diseases. Genetic variation in smoking liability, subject to genetic alleles being randomly passed betwe...