Surgical treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysm in 46 cases / 中国普通外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study how to improve the safety of the operation for abdominal aortic aneurysm(AAA).Methods Forty-six cases of AAA received resection of AAA plus artificial blood vessel transplantation in recent three and a half years in our 2 hospitals.The lesions involved only the abdominal aorta in 20 cases,and extended to unilateral common iliac and internal and external iliac arteries in 8 cases,to bilateral common iliac and external and internal iliac arteries in 16 cases,and involved the renal artery in 2 cases.Emergency operation was done in 3 cases.Results In these 46 cases,45 were cured and 1 died,and no operative complications occurred.Conclusions Surgical operation is the best way to treatment AAA.