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Modified Octopus Technique for Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Published on: August 1, 2025
[Surgical treatment of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm]
Abstract:
Over the last 30 years more than 1000 patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) were treated. Results of treatment of 367 patients with disruption of AAA from 1989 to 2002 were analyzed. Elderly and old patients account for 92% (338) of them. In 61% (224) patients after aneurysm's disruption blood outflew into the retroperitoneal space, in 23.4% (86) - into abdominal cavity, in 13,1% (48) patients retroperitoneal hematoma and hemoperitoneum formed, 2% (7) were the patients with functioning aorto-caval fistula, in 0.5% (2) aneurysm disrupted into the duodenum. There was no surgery due to different causes in 161 patients, all these patients died. One hundred and sixty-five patients underwent surgery, lethality was 60% (99 patients). Linear grafting of the aorta or aorto-iliac grafting was performed in the majority of patients - 77 (46.7%). Based on the obtained data three types of clinical picture of AAA disruption are devined: fulminant, acute and sub-acute. Complex treatment improved results of the treatment: lethality from 1989 to 1996 was 71.6%, from 1997 to 2002 - 52%.
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