ALLMedicine™ Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Center

Jan 26th, 2022 - Whether surgical team familiarity is associated with improved postoperative outcomes remains unknown. We sought to characterize the impact of fragmented surgical practice on the likelihood that a patient would experience a textbook outcome, which ...

Jan 26th, 2022 - The effect of suprarenal fixation (SR) compared to infrarenal fixation (IR) on renal function during endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) remains controversial. This study aims to compare the renal outcomes between fixation types in short- and long...

Jan 25th, 2022 - The pathophysiological difference between aortic atheromas and aneurysms is unknown. We focused on the vasa vasorum (VV), which play a critical role in maintaining aortic homeostasis and are also involved in vascular diseases. We investigated the ...

Jan 23rd, 2022 - Inflammatory aneurysms and mycotic aneurysms make up a minority of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Mainly autoimmune mechanisms are proposed in the pathogenesis of inflammatory aneurysms, and it is not routine to check for infectious agents as disease...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) provide evidence-based information on patient management; however, methodological differences exist in the development of CPGs. This study examines the methodological quality of A...

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...

May 6th, 2017 - Clinical palpation of a pulsating abdominal mass alerts the clinician to the presence of a possible abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Imaging studies are important in diagnosing and categorizing the extent of the aneurysm and may aid in treatment p...

Jan 19th, 2022 - The acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic requires a redefinition of healthcare system to increase the number of available intensive care units for COVID-19 patients. This leads to the postponing of elective surgeries including the treatment of abd...

Jan 11th, 2022 - Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), selective for inhibition of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2, alleviate pain and inflammation by suppressing COX-2-derived prostacyclin (PGI2) and prostaglandin (PG) E2 (1). However, eight placebo-controlled cl...

Dec 22nd, 2021 - A prospective clinical evaluation of the effectiveness of the Ovation Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System when used in the treatment of subjects with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). The primary objective is to evaluate treatment success at 12 month...

Nov 30th, 2021 - It is important to state that patients involved in this study will not have any changes made to their routine care as a result of this study. All patients recruited would have had a recent CT scan which will be used for the comparison and will not...

Nov 24th, 2021 - This is a Phase I multi-center, open-label study to evaluate use of the Nectero EAST system for stabilization of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Thirty (30) subjects will be treated at up to 10 worldwide sites with the device and followed for up to 36...

Nov 24th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients undergoing endovascular repair of an intact abdominal aortic aneurysm have a lower risk of death in the short term than do those undergoing open surgery, according to new findings. But the picture changes over ...

Apr 22nd, 2021 - Nearly 1 in 5 postsurgical hospital readmissions are potentially preventable, and failure to prevent them costs the healthcare system almost $300 million annually, according to a retrospective cohort study of data from the National Readmissions Da...

Apr 19th, 2021 - Cerebral vein thrombosis risk with COVID-19 illness is several-fold that associated with vaccination or influenza. (University of Oxford) Cardiometabolic diseases will be at the crest of the coming tsunami of death and disability from chronic cond...

Mar 23rd, 2021 - Combining bempedoic acid (Nexletol), ezetimibe (Zetia), and atorvastatin cut low-density lipoprotein cholesterol by 60.5% versus placebo in a small phase II trial. (Atherosclerosis) A meta-analysis supported genetic testing prior to prescribing a ...

Jan 5th, 2021 - Nearly a quarter of heart failure patients hospitalized for COVID-19 died, with a particularly high risk for men, those with morbid obesity, and those of older age. (JACC: Heart Failure) Managing COVID-19 risk in adults with congenital heart disea...