title: Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms: a personal experience.
abstract: Despite advances in surgical technique and peri-operative care, mortality from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm presenting to a hospital remains around 50%. This is in contrast to the mortality rate of < 5% for elective repair. In a two and a half year period,the principal surgeon operated on 10 patients with ruptured AAA, with a peri-operative and overall mortality of 30%. One of the ten patients had a ruptured mycotic aneurysm. We present our experience with these patients and also correlate this with recent publications.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000379:methods; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012769:Shock / Q000209:etiology; D012846:Singapore / Q000453:epidemiology; D016896:Treatment Outcome