Clavijo RT, Valencia DE, Barnés DJA, Carballo TL, Ortega RO, Guevara AL

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: the abdominal aortic aneurysm is a frequent and important illness of clinical value in angiology.
Objective: to describe some clinical and epidemiological aspects of the abdominal aortic aneurysms according to sex and size of the aneurysm.
Methods: longitudinal descriptive study of 56 patients aged over 55 years, with clinical and ultrasonographic diagnosis of abdominal aortic aneurysm. Some clinical and epidemiological aspects were analyzed. The following variables were used such as age, sex, location and size of aneurysm, and cardiovascular risk factors.
Results: aneurysms were more frequent in males aged over 60 years, mainly in 70-79 years (n= 26, 35.71 %). It was found that 32.14 % of patients were asymptomatic, whereas the palpable tumor (37.5 %) and abdominal pain (19.64 %) were the most common findings. Hypertension (64.29 %) and smoking (67.86 %) predominated. The 56.5 % of patients with big aneurysms presented with two factors, but those with very small aneurysms (45.8 %) presented just one. It was observed that infrarenal aneurysms were predominant, with 53 cases.
Conclusion: the abdominal aortic aneurysm predominated in patient older than 60 years, mainly if they are hypertensive and smoker, which are important factors to bear in mind in asymptomatic patients.

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