Women diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) are less likely to be deemed eligible for endovascular repair, less likely to undergo intervention, and less likely to survive if they get it, a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm has led to an approximate 30% decreased incidence of ruptured AAA ...

Vascular. 2007;15(4):191-196. Factors associated with perioperative mortality have been studied extensively in patients undergoing open repair of a ruptured AAA. There are several validated scoring ...

Future generations of aortic specialists will not only need to master endovascular techniques but also collectively work to preserve the open aortic skill set.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shape Memory Medical Inc., developer of custom shape memory polymers for endovascular markets, announced that one-year data from the AAA-SHAPE Safety Trial will ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) occurs in 5% of men and 1% of women over the age of 65. AAA rupture is fatal in 80%–90% of cases when pre-hospital deaths are included. Thus, elective repair should be ...

In patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm, endovascular aneurysm sealing is associated with a blunted systemic inflammatory response compared with endovascular aneurysm repair, with the greatest ...

A 2007 Medicare initiative to increase AAA (abdominal aortic aneurysm) screening in appropriate patients failed to prevent AAA rupture or reduce all-cause mortality, according to a new study published ...

Recent studies have suggested that endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) may reduce the perioperative mortality of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Whether EVAR confers any long-term survival ...