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Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2013; 61(01): 015-021
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1329697
Review Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms—Gender Aspects on Prevalence, Treatment, and Concurrent Aneurysms

Rebecka Hultgren
1   Department of Vascular Surgery, MMK, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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16 May 2012

27 July 2012

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06 December 2012 (online)

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Abstract

Fewer women than men suffer from abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). The women who are diagnosed with this fatal disease are more generally diseased, have a higher risk of concurrent thoracic aortic aneurysms, have a lower chance of endovascular aortic repair treatment, have a higher complication rate, and presumably, have a poorer survival rate than men with AAAs and other women in the population. This is an overview on prevalence, treatment, outcome, and multilevel aneurysm disease in women with AAAs compared with men.

Keywords

abdominal aortic aneurysm - gender - women - mortality - prevalence - TAA
 

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