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symptoms of splenic artery aneurysm
A 61-year-old female asked:
Dr. Donald Colantino answered
61 years experience Internal Medicine
Artery leak: Artery bleeding is usually quite brisk but with slower bleeding within the spleen, weakness,fatigue and left upper abdominal discomfort may be noted. ... Read More
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A 61-year-old female asked:
Dr. Gary Reiter answered
Specializes in Ophthalmology
See your doctor: If you have no symptoms from it, you can follow it with serial scans every 506 months. Do not get pregnant and treat any hypertension.
See your local ... Read More
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A 61-year-old female asked:
Dr. John Goldman answered
55 years experience Rheumatology
Less than 2 mm: The small size has a much lower risk of rupture. They usually grow about 0.2 mm/year . Since this is a growing more rapidly you need to be evaluated a ... Read More
A 61-year-old female asked:
Dr. Silviu Pasniciuc answered
27 years experience Internal Medicine
Right question: You are asking the right question. Most of the time stable designates a comparison with a previous scan. Some other times may designate the fact that ... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Norman Chideckel answered
42 years experience Vascular Surgery
It depends: Size and symptoms matter in pregnancy slight more dangerous.
A 52-year-old female asked:
Dr. Joel Gotvald answered
25 years experience Vascular Surgery
Possibly: Most splenic artery aneurysms are not at any significant risk of rupture & bleeding until they reach around 20 mm so most vascular surgeons recomm ... Read More
A 45-year-old female asked:
Dr. Creighton Wright answered
56 years experience General Surgery
Not really: All named blood vessels can have dilation-aneurysm.
Abdominal aorta is common, others less so!
A 61-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kevin Taubman answered
22 years experience Vascular Surgery
Depends: The two sizes stated may have different recommendations - size alone will affect which one may need surgery. Hormonal status (i.e. Pre vs post menopa ... Read More
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A 61-year-old female asked:
Dr. Sean O'Rourke answered
29 years experience Cardiology
Probably not: surgery for incidentally found splenic artery aneurysms is indicated for any that cause symptoms are more than 30 mm in diameter or or are detected i ... Read More
A 60-year-old female asked:
Dr. Scott Welker answered
27 years experience General Surgery
Little bulge: "Redemmonstration" means it's been seen before, hopefully a while back, because that means it's stable and not growing.
The aneurysm is a bulge in t ... Read More
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