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[Ruptured aneurysms of the abdominal aorta. A study of their incidence and mortality]
B Acea Nebril1, E Tovar Martín, P Díaz Pardeiro
1Servicio de Cirurgía Vascular, Hospital Juan Canalejo, La Coruña, España.
Angiologia
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
Between 1986 and 1992, 133 patients with abdominal aneurysms presented to our Department of Vascular Surgery. Of these, 97 (73%) were elective cases and 36 (27%) had ruptured. In all these patients resections were undertaken. Postoperative complications occurred in 28 patients (28%) for elective resection and in 17 patients (47%) for ruptured aneurysms (p < 0.05), with mortality rates of 46 and 94%, respectively (p < 0.005). The postoperative mortality for elective resection was 13% and for rupture 44% (p < 0.001).