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8688311

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-8-29
pubmed:abstractText
Atherosclerotic aneurysms limited to the iliac arteries are rare and entail a high risk of rupture. To evaluate the efficacy of prophylactic surgery, we retrospectively studied 15 patients (13 men and two women; mean age 69 years) treated for isolated iliac aneurysms in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Hospital of Liège over a period of 18 years. They had a total of 25 aneurysms (20 common iliac and five internal iliac). Six patients were treated electively and nine on an emergency basis for rupture. Five of the emergency patients (33%) died in the early postoperative period (< 30 days); in each case the aneurysm had ruptured and an emergency operation was performed (55.5% mortality in the ruptured iliac aneurysm group). On the other hand, all patients treated electively survived. Our study is comparable to other recent series in the literature, which also reported a high incidence of rupture and death in emergency operations. Prophylactic elective surgery is recommended for iliac aneurysms.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0890-5096
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
9 Suppl
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S62-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Isolated atherosclerotic aneurysms of the iliac arteries.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Belgium.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article