Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: a five year review.
This review of patients presenting with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm over a five year period shows a high mortality. The natural history of the problem of abdominal aortic aneurysm and the place of elective aneurysmectomy is stressed. Factors affecting the outcome after rupture in the forty-six patients presenting in this five year period are reviewed. Ten patients survived to leave hospital.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand