Surgical treatment of elderly patients with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm

Background The traditional surgical treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is now well codified in vascular surgery with a perioperative mortality rate that has gradually declining in recent years. The introduction of endovascular techniques has led the indications for surgery to be reviewed. The results of surgery in patients over eighty are fairly well defined: it is encoded that age affects only a small part of the immediate results in terms of overall mortality, while it is a significant factor in increasing rates of perioperative major morbidity, in particular cardiac and respiratory diseases. The purpose of this article is to assess the octogenarian patients who are not candidates for treatment with endoprosthesis.