title: [Improved treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Progress over 17 years].
abstract: During the period 1970-86, 155 men and 24 women were operated on for abdominal aortic aneurysms at the University Hospital in Tromsø. Elective operations were performed in 76 patients with an operative mortality of 5 (7%), impending rupture in 49, of whom 14 died (29%) and ruptured aneurysms in 54 patients, of whom 33 (61%) died. There has been a substantial increase in the number of patients per year admitted with abdominal aneurysms, from an average of 4.5 during the years 1970-76 inclusive, to over 20 during the years 1984-86. Operative and early postoperative mortality have been reduced and there has been no death following elective operations during the last three years of the reported period. Mortality was 8% for impending rupture and 45% for ruptured aneurysms. Electively abdominal aortic aneurysms can be operated safely even in patients over the age of 80. Ruptured aneurysms, however, still carry a high operative mortality in patients over the age of 70.
authors.affiliation: Kirurgisk avdeling, Regionsykehuset i Tromsø.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dukefoss
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Haukeland
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vaage
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sørlie
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lie
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000601:surgery; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000639:trends*
vernacular_title: Bedret behandling av abdominale aortaaneurismer. 17 års utvikling.