Emerging strategies to treat ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms
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Author(s)
Powell, JT
Hinchliffe, RJ
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Population screening programmes and a falling population prevalence of smoking have led to a declining incidence of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms in men. However, ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms remain a common vascular surgical emergency, with an increasing proportion of ruptures being in women. About one quarter of the ruptures have a juxta-renal aneurysm and are more challenging to repair using endovascular technologies. Endovascular technologies may not reduce the overall mortality, compared with open surgical repair, but appear to offer early benefits with respect to patient quality of life at acceptable cost. Challenges over the next 5 years include widening the access to repair, developing an accurate bedside risk scoring tool, as well as optimising strategies for pre-operative resuscitation, standardising peri-operative care and the management of post-operative complications.
Date Issued
2015-10-21
Date Acceptance
2015-10-21
Citation
Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, 2015, 13 (12), pp.1411-1418
ISSN
1477-9072
Publisher
Taylor and Francis
Start Page
1411
End Page
1418
Journal / Book Title
Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy
Volume
13
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, Volume 13, Issue 12, available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1586/14779072.2015.1104247.
Subjects
Cardiovascular System & Hematology
1102 Cardiovascular Medicine And Haematology
1117 Public Health And Health Services
Publication Status
Published