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- Title
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Age as a Risk Factor Influencing Postoperative Survival.
- Authors
Perko, Mario Jerzy; Olsen, Peter Skov; Schroeder, Torben Veith; Sørensen, Steffen; Lorentzen, Jørgen Ewald
- Abstract
During a ten-year period 735 patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm were admitted of whom 656 patients were operated on. The perioperative mortality was 18%: 5% in cases electively operated on, 17% in acute not ruptured cases, and 37% in patients presenting with rupture. Age significantly affected perioperative (< 31 days) mortality--both considered alone and assessed together with other risk factors. Further analysis indicated that the perioperative mortality of octogenarians did not differ from the mortality of septuagenarians, who on the other hand experienced a perioperative mortality rate twice that of patients younger than seventy years. Survival beyond the perioperative period was adversely affected only by age and ischemic heart disease.
- Subjects
AORTIC aneurysms; ABDOMINAL aortic aneurysms; ANEURYSMS; AORTIC diseases; SURGERY; HEART diseases; ISCHEMIA
- Publication
Vascular Surgery, 1993, Vol 27, Issue 3, p176
- ISSN
0042-2835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/153857449302700303