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Women with aortic aneurysms do worse than men

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Hippocratic Post

Although suffering an abdominal aortic aneurysm is four to six times more common in men than women, mortality rates for women undergoing surgery for an abdominal aortic aneurysms is nearly twice as much as those for men, a new study has found. The findings, published in The Lancet, show women fare worse than men at […]

Fixing the body’s leaky pipes

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Professor Roger Greenhalgh

When we first started looking at short-term outcomes for patients who had recently undergone a minimally invasive procedure to fix aortic aneurysm called EVAR (endovascular aneurysm repair), we were delighted and relieved. This technique, which involved threading a tiny flexible tube through the artery in the groin and positioning it within the swollen area of the aorta main […]