ALLMedicine™ Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - Best medical therapy (BMT) for peripheral arterial disease (PAD), carotid artery stenosis (CAS) and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) involving concomitant use of antiplatelets, lipid-lowering agents, and blood pressure control, improves patient sur...

Mar 18th, 2023 - An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a potentially life-threatening condition, the management of which has dramatically evolved over the past 2 decades with an increasing tendency toward endovascular repair (EVAR) rather than open surgical repair...

Mar 18th, 2023 - Post-EVAR (endovascular aneurysm repair) aneurysm sac growth can be seen as therapy failure as it is a risk factor for post-EVAR aneurysm rupture. This study sought to identify preoperative patient predictors for developing post-EVAR aneurysm sac ...

Mar 17th, 2023 - Patients with Marfan syndrome who present with a dual aortic aneurysm are not uncommon in clinical practice; however, the management of these patients is a significant challenge. We present a unique case of aortic root aneurysm and challenging inf...

Mar 16th, 2023 - To determine if three-dimensional (3D) radiomic features of contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) images improve prediction of rapid abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) growth. This longitudinal cohort study retrospectively analyzed 195 consecutive patients (me...

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...

Mar 10th, 2023 - BACKGROUND - Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture is the 13th cause of death in North America. The indications for a procedure to prevent rupture are based on AAA maximal diameter. However, it is a dichotomic criteria leading to under or over e...

Mar 6th, 2023 - Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are asymptomatic until they rupture, which carries an 80- 90% mortality. Therefore, AAA are surgically repaired when they reach 5.0 cm in women and 5.5cm in men. Despite advances to surgical technique and peri-oper...

Feb 28th, 2023 - The submaximal heart and pulmonary evaluation (SHAPE™) test is an FDA approved cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) system that provides a rapid and non-invasive way of characterizing cardiopulmonary reserve in a variety of medical conditions3,...

Feb 27th, 2023 - This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Nellix System among a wide range of physicians and in consecutively enrolled subjects to assess outcomes generalizability. Following appropriate government and ethics committee/IRB appro...

Feb 24th, 2023 - The Post discharge after surgery Virtual Care with Remote Automated Monitoring technology (PVC-RAM)-2 Trial is a multicentre, parallel group, superiority, randomized controlled trial to determine the effect of virtual care with remote automated mo...

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...

Nov 14th, 2022 - Editor's Note: The Case Challenge series includes difficult-to-diagnose conditions, some of which are not frequently encountered by most clinicians but are nonetheless important to accurately recognize. Test your diagnostic and treatment skills us...

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...