What is it about?
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are relatively common and are potentially life-threatening. Patients at greatest risk for AAA are men who are older than 65 years and have peripheral atherosclerotic vascular disease. AAAs usually is asymptomatic until they expand or rupture. An expanding AAA causes sudden, severe, and constant low back, flank, abdominal, or groin pain. The advent of endovascular therapies has led to a paradigm shift in the management of abdominal aortic pathology. Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) has revolutionized the treatment of AAAs disease. Abdominal endografts are seeing widespread use as the first-line approach in treating elective aortic disease and are increasingly used to treat emergent processes including ruptures
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Why is it important?
An expanding AAA causes sudden, severe, and constant low back, flank, abdominal, or groin pain. The advent of endovascular therapies has led to a paradigm shift in the management of abdominal aortic pathology. Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) has revolutionized the treatment of AAAs disease. Abdominal endografts are seeing widespread use as the first-line approach in treating elective aortic disease and are increasingly used to treat emergent processes including ruptures
Perspectives
Short-term morbidity and mortality have proven superior to open aneurysm repair. EVAR is less invasive than open repair and useful for treating AAAs in octogenarians, with regard to the strategy of treatment of AAAs the principle of this technique is to eliminate the aneurysm via an endoluminal prosthesis (stent-graft), which is inserted trans- arterially from the femoral artery.
Professor Paulo Eduardo Ocke Reis
Universidade Federal Fluminense
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This page is a summary of: Anatomical Study of the Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - A Short Report, Anatomy & Physiology, January 2016, OMICS Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0940.1000194.
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