Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: Selecting Patients for Surgery
| Autor: | Candace M. Cosgrove, Stanley W. Ashley, A. J. Walker, S.E. Prance, D C Wilkins, Y. G. Wilson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Complete data Aortic Rupture Preoperative risk chemistry.chemical_compound Risk Factors medicine Humans In patient Cumulative effect Aged Retrospective Studies Medicine(all) Rupture Aged 80 and over Creatinine business.industry Patient Selection Operative mortality Middle Aged medicine.disease Survival Analysis Abdominal aortic aneurysm Surgery Treatment Outcome chemistry Mortality Female Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Male to female business Aortic Aneurysm Abdominal |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 17:129-132 |
| ISSN: | 1078-5884 |
| Popis: | Objectives: mortality from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (RAAA) remains high. Despite this, withholding surgery on poor-prognosis patients with RAAA may create a difficult dilemma for the surgeon. Hardmanet al. identified five independent, preoperative risk factors associated with mortality and proposed a model for preoperative patient selection. The aim of this study was to test the validity of the same model in an independent series of RAAA patients.Methodsa consecutive series of patients undergoing surgery for RAAA was analysed retrospectively by case-note review. Thirty-day operative mortality and the presence of the five risk factors: age (>76 years), creatinine (Cr) (>190μmol/l), haemoglobin (Hb) ( |
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