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Abdominal aortic aneurysm please tell me death rate?
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Death rate improves : Abdominal aortic aneurysms have benefitted from improved diagnostics, surgeries, medications, and now stents. Rupture rate goes up when AAA gets larger than 5.5 cm. Survival with little morbidity is now expected. Mortality is less than 5%. Get to your doc for medications and referral to vascular surgery.
Answered 6/10/2014
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Depends on size: Rupture rates from aaa's less than 4 cm are very small. Risk of rupture at 5-5.5 cm is about 5% per year. The risk goes up quickly from there. For example, 10-20% at 6-7 cm, and 20-40% for 7-8 cm. An intervention is often recommended if the aneurysm grows more than 1 cm per year or it is bigger than 5.5 cm. Data also supports consideration for a lower threshold in women (5 cm) - rupture earlier.
Answered 2/18/2015
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