Aortic aneurysms can be classified into thoracic & abdominal aortic aneurysm with different clinical features, diagnostic characteristics and management. If the growth occurs continuously, it can result in bursting of the artery and bleeding, a condition termed aortic dissection, which is considered a catastrophic fatal condition. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are generally caused due to infection...

Chronic periaortitis represents a unique pathogenic concept for three entities: Inflammatory Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis and Perianeurysmal Retroperitoneal Fibrosis. The fundamental meaning of an inflammatory reaction to advanced atherosclerosis has been developed on the bottom of clinical and histological features. The triad of abdominal pain, weight loss and...

A 59 year old gentleman with a background history of hypertension and hyperlipedaemia, presented to the emergency department with abdominal and chest pain. He was confused and haemodynamically unstable. His blood pressure at presentation was 70/40 His pulse was 125, on examination his abdomen was tender centrally and in the left flank. A fast scan revealed asizeable abdominal aortic aneurysm. P...

Purpose: Non-respective treatment of the abdominal aortic aneurysm by proximal and distal ligation of the aneurysm sac (exclusion) combined with aortic bypass known as Debakey Procedure has been previously reported. A 2 year experience with 10 patients undergoing this procedure was reviewed. Methods: From 2010 to 2012, 10 patients of abdominal aortic aneurysm underwent repair with the retroperi...

SUDDEN THROMBOSIS of an aneurysnm of the abdominal aorta is an extremely rare complication. More commonly, abdominal aortic aneurysms rupture and bleed either retroperitoneally, into the free peritoneal cavity, or into adjacent bowel or mesentery. By contrast, the commonest complications of popliteal aneurysms are acute occlusion due to thrombosis of the aneurysm and peripheral embolic occlusio...

A 67-year-old woman with peripheral arterial occlusive disease in both lower extremities, secondary to an abdominal aortic aneurysm, developed chronic total occlusion of the abdominal aortic aneurysm during the 3-year follow-up period. She suffered from sudden onset of paraplegia 3 months after palliative axillobifemoral bypass grafting and died of pneumonia. The paraplegia was considered to ha...

RATIONALE Mutations in fibrillin-1 are associated with thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) in Marfan syndrome. Genome-wide association studies also implicate fibrillin-1 in sporadic TAA. Fragmentation of the aortic elastic lamellae is characteristic of TAA. OBJECTIVE Immunoassays were generated to test whether circulating fragments of fibrillin-1, or other microfibril fragments, are associated wit...

Recent studies have confirmed a close association between various medical conditions (intracranial aneurysm, abdominal aortic aneurysm, temporal arteritis, autoimmune disorder, renal cysts), certain aortic anatomic variants (bovine aortic arch, direct origin of left vertebral artery from aortic arch, bicuspid aortic valve), and family history of aneurysm disease with thoracic aortic aneurysm an...

A 78-year-old patient presented with shortness of breath after falling down. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed an extensive thrombus in the right atrium (RA), extensive thrombosis of the inferior vena cava (IVC), and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). A magnetic resonance confirmed the thrombosis of the RA extending to the IVC, which was apparently fused to the abdominal aortic aneurysm (compre...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether the mortality benefit from screening men aged 65-74 for abdominal aortic aneurysm decreases over time, and to estimate the long term cost effectiveness of screening. DESIGN Randomised trial with 10 years of follow-up. SETTING Four centres in the UK. Screening and surveillance was delivered mainly in primary care settings, with follow-up and surgery offered in ho...