The genetic basis for aortic aneurysmal disease

A Saratzis, MJ Bown - Heart, 2014 - heart.bmj.com
Aortic aneurysms are an important cause of cardiovascular death in elderly patients. At
present, little is known of the pathobiology of aneurysmal disease and this limits the ability to …

Management of modifiable vascular risk factors improves late survival following abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M Khashram, JA Williman, PN Hider, GT Jones… - Annals Of Vascular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background The main determinants of survival following abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)
repair are preexisting risk factors rather than the method of repair chosen. The main aim of …

Chronic critical illness in patients with sepsis is associated with persistent anemia, inflammation, and impaired functional outcomes

ED Carmichael, CG Apple, KB Kannan… - The American …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction Survivors of sepsis will progress towards rapid recovery (RAP) or enter a state
of persistent organ dysfunction and chronic critical illness (CCI). Independently, anemia is …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of major cardiac events after vascular surgery

DM Gualandro, C Puelacher, G LuratiBuse… - Journal of vascular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Predicting cardiac events is essential to provide patients with the best medical
care and to assess the risk-benefit ratio of surgical procedures. The aim of our study was to …

The effect of smoking status on perioperative morbidity and mortality after open and endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

L Peterson, G Schweitzer, A Simone, T Zielke… - Annals of Vascular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background This study quantifies the extent to which active tobacco smoking is deleterious
toward outcomes following open and endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) …

[HTML][HTML] Anemia and postoperative outcomes after open and endovascular repair of intact abdominal aortic aneurysms

H Dakour-Aridi, B Nejim, S Locham, W Alshwaily… - Journal of vascular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective Anemia is associated with increased cardiac adverse events during the early
postoperative period because of high physiologic stress and increased cardiac demand …

Complications to cerebrospinal fluid drainage and predictors of spinal cord ischemia in patients with aortic disease undergoing advanced endovascular therapy

I Mehmedagic, T Resch… - … and endovascular surgery, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To study the complications after cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage and predictors
of spinal cord ischemia (SCI) after advanced endovascular therapy with CSF drainage for …

Intravenous iron in a prehabilitation program for older surgical patients: prospective cohort study

TL Janssen, EW Steyerberg, AJ van Gammeren… - Journal of Surgical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Older patients often have iron deficiency anemia before surgery, which can be
effectively treated with intravenous iron supplementation (IVIS). Anemia and blood …

Anaemia in patients who underwent vascular surgery: a significant predictor of amputation and death

C Esteban, P Rodríguez, JR Escudero, A Clarà… - … Clínica (English Edition), 2019 - Elsevier
Background and objective In patients with peripheral artery disease requiring surgery,
anaemia has been found to independently predict short and medium term higher morbidity …

Plasma ferritin concentrations are not associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm diagnosis, size or growth

JV Moxon, RE Jones, PE Norman, P Clancy, L Flicker… - Atherosclerosis, 2016 - Elsevier
Background and aims Experimental studies using a rodent model have suggested that iron
overload may contribute to abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) pathogenesis. Methods We …