TY - JOUR
T1 - Mortality from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
AU - Kouchoukos, Nicholas T.
AU - Levy, Jerome F.
AU - Butcher, Harvey R.
N1 - Funding Information:
From th Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. This work was supported in part by U.S.P.H.S. Grant HE-O2569-10.
PY - 1967/2
Y1 - 1967/2
N2 - Thirty-six patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms were operated upon in an eight and a half year period with an operative mortality of 61 per cent. Severe preoperative hypotension, previous myocardial infarction, and sustained operative hypotension with massive blood replacement adversely affected survival. Increased salvage of patients with ruptured abdominal aneurysms will best be achieved by prompt diagnosis and treatment before the onset of severe cardiovascular collapse.
AB - Thirty-six patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms were operated upon in an eight and a half year period with an operative mortality of 61 per cent. Severe preoperative hypotension, previous myocardial infarction, and sustained operative hypotension with massive blood replacement adversely affected survival. Increased salvage of patients with ruptured abdominal aneurysms will best be achieved by prompt diagnosis and treatment before the onset of severe cardiovascular collapse.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9610(67)90229-2
DO - 10.1016/0002-9610(67)90229-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 6016722
AN - SCOPUS:0014052614
SN - 0002-9610
VL - 113
SP - 232
EP - 235
JO - The American Journal of Surgery
JF - The American Journal of Surgery
IS - 2
ER -