If you’ve been diagnosed with a small abdominal aortic aneurysm, your physician will apply a “watchful waiting” approach, which includes regular imaging of the condition to see if the diseased portion of the artery grows in size. The latest investigation (a meta-analysis) reveals that the smallest abdominal aortic aneurysms often do not seem to get ...
Lifeline Screening is a company that has been in business since 1993. While they are increasingly popular, and forever adding new services, many don’t know the necessity or reasoning behind getting the tests that they offer. I did some research for a family member and thought I would share it. Lifeline Screening offers so many ...
An endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm isn’t as troubling to consider when compared to the more invasive, open surgical treatment. On the other hand, stented grafts can fail, and this procedure requires lifelong CT scans (radiation) for monitoring. A Johns Hopkins professor has determined that the four-year survival rate between both repair procedures ...
Perhaps you already know that stent graft repair of descending and abdominal aortic aneurysm is the repair procedure of choice for select patients. I didn’t understand, then, why stent graft repair was apparently impossible with an aneurysm of the ascending aorta. I thought maybe it had something to do with not being able to “feed” ...
Abdominal Pain can be caused by an exhausting list of disorders and it is extremely difficult to diagnosis at first glance which one is causing the problem. Most physicians take into consideration a variety of factors when they diagnosis the underlying disorder that is causing the abdominal pain. Abdominal pain can range from minor conditions ...
An aneurysm is an abnormal ballooning of a part of a blood vessel that can develop in various parts of your body. When an aneurysm occurs within your brain, as it does for an estimated three to six percent of the adult population of the United States, and it subsequently ruptures due to pressure, the ...
