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. 1986 Sep;68(5):275–278.

The mortality of abdominal aortic aneurysm.

W B Campbell, J Collin, P J Morris
PMCID: PMC2498338  PMID: 3789625

Abstract

During a five year period 153 patients presented with abdominal aortic aneurysms and 135 received grafts. The mortality was 4.2% (3 of 71) for elective cases, 16.7% (2 of 12) for acute cases (the preoperative diagnosis of rupture found to be incorrect) and 55.8% (29 of 52) for patients with ruptured aneurysms. For patients with ruptured aneurysms there was a trend towards larger amounts of blood and colloid infusion in patients who died compared with those who survived, but there was no statistically significant difference either for the amount transfused, or for age, distance of referral, preoperative blood pressure, operating theatre time, or seniority of operating surgeon, between the two groups. It is possible that increased attention to cardiac and renal disease might reduce mortality following elective surgery. Measures to reduce the high mortality from ruptured aneurysm must be early detection and treatment of intact aneurysms, rapid diagnosis of rupture and expeditious surgery with minimal blood loss and the accurate exclusion of rupture in acute cases to achieve the same mortality as elective surgery.

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