This bulge in the aorta is called an abdominal aortic aneurysm ... Although an AAA can be discovered during a routine physical examination, most often, however, an aneurysm is found during a medical ...

may reduce the perioperative mortality of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Whether EVAR confers any long-term survival advantage over published results for open repair of ruptured AAA has ...

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Operative survival is as high as 96% for elective abdominal aortic aneursym ... with aneurysm expansion. Screening should reduce the incidence of octogenarian rupture of AAA and identify those ...

An abdominal aortic aneurysm develops in the portion of the aorta located in the abdomen. Abdominal aortic aneurysms affect ... An abdominal ultrasound is recommended to screen men for aortic ...