
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
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A 75-year-old obese man comes to the emergency department. He has history COPD, hypertension. He is a smoker and on regular follow-up with primary care. He describes sudden onset severe flank and back pain for past 2 hours. He denies any chest pain or dyspnea. He informs the physician about his chronic abdominal pain. His initial vital signs are HR 98 bpm, RR 24/min, BP 190/105 mmHg, T 36.9C. His examination revealed mild abdominal pain without rigidity or rebound tenderness. Bedside ultrasonography performed and the result is shown on the side.
What is the risk of rupture?
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Risk of Rupture
increases with emphysema, smoking, hypertension. Regarding Powell’s (2003, 2007) study aneurisms above 5.5 cm have 9.4% to 32.4% rupture risk in one year.
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