title: Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in high-risk patients. A review of five years' surgical experience of non-ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms in a rural tertiary referral center.
abstract: A review of 77 elective abdominal aortic aneurysms repaired over the past five years at West Virginia University Hospital in high-risk patients reveals an elevated incidence of concomitant occlusive vascular disease. We continue to perform routinely preoperative aortography with runoff films in these patients because of the valuable information it gives. This information permits us to perform vascular procedures to relieve the atherosclerotic stenotic lesions at the time of the abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. A review of risk factors, vascular anomalies, concomitant vascular procedures, complications, and mortality is given.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Zambos
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: McDowell
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography; D002415:Cats; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D014903:West Virginia