title: Management of tender abdominal aortic aneurysm.
abstract: Forty-eight patients with tender haemodynamically stable abdominal aortic aneurysms were evaluated. The aneurysms in 18 of these patients (37.5%) were found, at the time of surgery, not to have leaked. The mortality rate in patients with these tender non-leaking aneurysms undergoing emergency surgery was 16.6%. This high mortality rate can be improved by using computed tomography pre-operatively to prevent patients with non-leaking aneurysms from undergoing emergency surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Louridas
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gaylis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged