Posts Tagged ‘Aortic’

First Patients Enrolled In Cordis Trial Of New Stent Graft System To Treat Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Cordis Corporation, a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of interventional vascular technologies, announced that the first patients have been enrolled in the INNOVATION trial, which will assess the safety and performance of a new stent graft system, called INCRAFT(TM), to treat abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). An estimated 27 [...]

Detection Of Unsuspected Cancers Beyond Colon Revealed By Virtual Colonoscopy

A new, large-scale study of more than 10,000 adults found that more than one in every 200 asymptomatic people screened with CT colonography, or virtual colonoscopy, had clinically unsuspected malignant cancer and more than half of the cancers were located outside the colon. The findings were published in the April issue [...]

Ultrasound lectures 8 (Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm)

AAA (Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm)
Clinical
Approximately 90-95% of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are confined to the infrarenal aorta. AAA are usually not repaired until they exceed 4-5 cm in maximum diameter. The risk of rupture within 5 years is 25% at 5 cm diameter. AAA smaller than 5 cm have a a3% risk [...]

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