[Color-coded duplex sonography in postoperative evaluation of aortic aneurysms].
One hundred patients with infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms were treated by surgery. Fifteen deaths occurred postoperatively. Eleven patients died during the follow-up of a medium period of 13 months. Three patients with a ruptured aneurysm died intraoperatively before the graft was implanted. Three patients were lost to follow-up. Sixty-four patients were examined with colour-coded Duplex sonography after surgical repair. Colour-coded Duplex sonography was able to image the aortic prostheses with the adjacent major vessels. Fifty-eight patients showed a normal prosthesis, 3 dilatation proximal of the prosthesis, 1 dilatation distal of the prosthesis, 1 mild stenosis, 1 haematoma. Colour-coded Duplex sonography imaged the intraluminal space of the prosthesis more easily than ultrasound. Colour-coded Duplex sonography was able to differentiate between intraluminal and extraluminal lesions.
Schnarkowski
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Institut für Radiologische Diagnostik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Kalff
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Kania
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Reiser
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006083:Graft Occlusion, Vascular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color
Die farbkodierte Duplexsonographie in der postoperativen Beurteilung von Aortenaneurysmen.