Prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is increasing due to longer life expectancy and implementation of screening programs. Patient-specific longitudinal measurements of AAA are important to understand pathophysiology of disease development and modifiers of abdominal aortic size. In this paper, we applied natural language processing (NLP) techniques to process radiology reports and deve...

Background and Aims: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is characterized by the presence of B cells immunoglobulins in wall, mainly adventitia. Kappa (κ) lambda (λ) free light chains (FLCs) are produced from during immunoglobulin synthesis. We aim to investigate prognostic value combined FLCs (cFLCs or summed κ λ) patients with AAA.

A 68 year old man with significant cardiorespiratory risks factors presented with a ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA). This was treated by emergency thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) under general anaesthesia (GA). An incidental abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) was not treated. Eight months later, he presented with ruptured AAA. Due to the patient's compromised respiratory syst...

OBJECTIVE To determine postoperative and long-term outcome and assess the relevance of abdominal ultrasound (US) after surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) or aortoiliac occlusive disease (AIOD). METHODS Records of 1704 consecutive patients having graft implantation from 1988 to 2000, either for AAA (n = 1144) or for AIOD (n = 560), were reviewed. In 2006, follow-up was 9180 patients-y...

BACKGROUND Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a slowly progressive destructive process of the main abdominal artery. Experimental studies indicate that fibrates exert beneficial effects on AAAs by mechanisms involving both serum lipid modification and favourable changes to the AAA wall. METHODS/DESIGN Fenofibrate in the management of AbdoMinal aortic anEurysm (FAME) is a multicentre, randomis...

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...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is the most common and critical disease. Bleeding serious complication from a ruptured AAA, which often results in death. Therefore, early diagnosis treatment are only effective means to reduce AAA associated mortality. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) combines functional anatomical imaging. The expanded application of PET/CT medical fiel...

To investigate to the understanding of the hemodynamic characteristics in abdominal aortic aneurysm, computational fluid dynamic simulation of physiological flows through aneurysm model was performed. The results suggest that pressure and WSS distributions on the surface of aneurysm were unevenly distributed during the diastolic phase. It was also found that the secondary flow is formed with de...

Management of patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and concomitant malignancy is controversial, particularly when both diseases require urgent surgical treatment. We present the case of an 88-year-old woman with a large AAA and concomitant advanced colon cancer. We performed a simultaneous endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) and a laparoscopic-assisted colectomy. The patient'...

A literature review was performed using Medline, PubMed, Web of Science, and The Cochrane Library databases from inception to August 2020. Ten randomized controlled trials with 2045 participants an asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) follow-up ∼1.5 5 years were analyzed. Neither blood pressure-lowering medications nor antibiotics reduced AAA-related events or AAA growth. This meta-anal...