Tag: ruptured AAA

• Lifelong surveillance after EVAR -is it worth it?

  

  About ten years ago, I had a patient who came to see me for moderate carotid disease. While his carotid disease was asymptomatic, he also had metastatic colon cancer. With colectomy, cryoablation of liver mets, and chemotherapy, he was in remission. Every 6 to twelve months he had some kind of CT scan with contrast. […]

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  20 Jul 2020

  AAA, Commentary, common iliac artery aneurysm, complications, CTA, EVAR, innovation, ruptured AAA, techniques, training

  EVAR, open aortic aneurysm repair, ruptured AAA

• If the odds are against the patient, who is for the patient?

  The first patient, a man in his late 70’s, ruptured in the emergency room at around four in the afternoon on a weekday, which was fortuitous, as the hospital was fully staffed, fully armed. The patient had arrived only a bit earlier with the complaint of severe abdominal pain, and soon after getting his CT, arrested. CPR […]

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  7 Jan 2016

  AAA, common iliac artery aneurysm, iliac artery aneurysm, ruptured AAA, training

  CPR, EVAR versus open repair, PEA arrest, ruptured AAA, ruptured aortic aneurysm