Publication detail

Assessing the potential risk of rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Khan S., Verma V., Verma S., POLZER S. and Jha S.

Original Title

Assessing the potential risk of rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) involve complex interplays between inflammatory and biomechanical factors that can be elucidated with anatomical and functional imaging. Although AAA size has been well-established in the literature to correlate with risk of rupture (and subsequent need for vascular intervention), there are other less-well-known characteristics about AAAs that also contribute to higher risk of rupture. This review focuses on biomechanical, radiological, and epidemiological characteristics of AAAs that are associated with higher rupture risk. For clinicians, knowing and considering a wide variety of risk factors in addition to AAA size is important to initiate early and proper intervention for AAA repair. Although there is no official quantitative risk score of AAA rupture risk that takes other nonsize- related variables into account, if clinicians are aware of these other parameters, it is hoped that intervention can be appropriately performed for higher-risk AAAs that have not met the size-threshold for elective repair

Keywords

abdominal aortic aneurysms, risk of rupture, wall stress

Authors

Khan S., Verma V., Verma S., POLZER S. and Jha S.

RIV year

2015

Released

5. 1. 2015

Publisher

Elsevier

Location

London

ISBN

0009-9260

Periodical

CLINICAL RADIOLOGY

Year of study

70

Number

1

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

11

Pages to

20

Pages count

10

URL

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009926014004528#

BibTex

@article{BUT110205,
  author="Stanislav {Polzer}",
  title="Assessing the potential risk of rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms",
  journal="CLINICAL RADIOLOGY",
  year="2015",
  volume="70",
  number="1",
  pages="11--20",
  doi="10.1016/j.crad.2014.09.016",
  issn="0009-9260",
  url="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009926014004528#"
}