Affiliation:
1. Vascular Surgery Unit, University Department of Surgery, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh EH3 9YW, UK
Abstract
Abstract
Background
This study reviews the results of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery over 21 years (1 January 1976 to 31 December 1996).
Methods
A prospectively gathered database was analysed.
Results
Infrarenal AAA repair was performed in 1515 patients: 492 (32·5 per cent) had elective repair of an asymptomatic AAA; 194 (12·8 per cent) had elective repair of a symptomatic AAA; 156 (10·3 per cent) had emergency repair of a symptomatic non-ruptured AAA; and 673 (44·4 per cent) had surgery for a ruptured AAA. The 30-day and/or same admission mortality rates were 6·1, 5·8, 14·1 and 37 per cent respectively. Operative mortality increased in all four groups over the study interval, although this only attained statistical significance in patients having elective repair of a symptomatic, non-ruptured AAA. There was a significant increase in the age of patients undergoing elective repair of an asymptomatic AAA, but not in the other three groups. There was also a significant increase in the proportion of straight ‘tube’ grafts inserted in all four groups.
Conclusions
It remains the minority of patients who have elective operation before the onset of symptoms and/or rupture. Despite anaesthetic and surgical specialization, the results of AAA repair have not improved over the past two decades. Operative mortality may be increasing, possibly because of the increasing age and associated comorbidity of the patients presenting to this unit.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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