[The subrenal abdominal aortic aneurysm. An examination of case histories and comments]

The purpose of the search has stayed that of verify the evolution of the approach to the patient carrier of MA and of the treatment pre-intra-post-operatorio. The study has stayed effected on sheltered patients in our Institute from the January 1988 to the January 1997. They are about to be examined the data regarding 282 patients of which 215 cases in election and 67 in urgency. The analysis of the data has shown that the sex masculine are stricken more than female one with a relationship of 8.4: 1; the range more stricken the inclusive one in 65-79 years, the mortality in election has stayed almost unchanged while that in urgency has suffered a clean decrement. The amelioration of the diagnostics techniques of the preparation preoperative of the technical anesthesiologic and surgical has allowed to get good person results in election and above all in urgency. From the comparison with the world literature result that the incidence of the MA is in increase in the population, but we have not given univocal for define the entity of this pathology, common datum is the small badger of mortality. In conclusion the MA stays a serious pathology, diagnosed for case burdened from the mortality still elevated (40%).