title: Management of urgent intact abdominal aortic aneurysms.
abstract: Fifty patients with acute and urgent but unruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms were reviewed. The mortality rate was 24.3% in 37 patients having aneurysm resection and graft replacement. The mortality rate in patients developing cardiac and renal complications after surgery was 100%. Nine patients did not receive surgery and four patients had a laparotomy but did not have their aortic aneurysms repaired. Patients presenting with urgent but stable and unruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms require careful but swift assessment before surgery, and have a higher mortality than patients undergoing elective aneurysm surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Peripheral Vascular Surgery, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vohra
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Groome
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Abdool-Carrim
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Pollock
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications