Curcumin as alternative medicine. Researchers found that, compared with placebo, perioperative oral curcumin did not affect the inflammatory response and risk of postoperative complications after ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lower prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm has led to an approximate 30% decreased incidence of ruptured AAA ...

In patients who undergo elective treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), hospital expenses required for open repair surpass the higher initial graft cost of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair ...

In nonoperative octogenarians, there were similar numbers of males and females. A male preponderance was noted in the other categories. Hypertension was most common in the elective surgical under 80 ...

People who don't realize they're living with an abdominal aortic aneurysm may face a sudden aortic rupture or tear and massive, catastrophic bleeding. However, others lucky enough to know in advance ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients undergoing elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, measures of cardiopulmonary fitness can predict postoperative complications, according to a study published online ...

When doctors hear people talk about abdominal aortic aneurysms as "ticking time bombs," they tend to grow a bit weary. In reality, they say, many patients diagnosed with a small, slow-growing AAA can ...

A new study compared open surgical repair with a catheter-based procedure and found that the less invasive endovascular aortic repair has clear benefits for most patients. Each year, nearly 40,000 ...

Recovery of quality of life (QoL) after elective endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) takes longer for those aged 80 years or older compared with younger patients, reports a registry study ...

Operative survival is as high as 96% for elective abdominal aortic aneursym (AAA) repair but as low as 10% for emergency repair. Our primary aim was to compare elective AAA repair in octogenarians ...