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ReviewJournal of perioperative practice

Abdominal aortic aneurysms part one: Epidemiology, presentation and preoperative considerations.

Holly N Hellawell, Ahmed M H A M Mostafa, Harry Kyriacou, Anoop S Sumal, Jonathan R Boyle

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Review in Journal of perioperative practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Nano-mechanical mapping of human and porcine abdominal aortic aneurysm.Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials · 2026
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  8. Modern Concepts in Cardiovascular Disease: Inflamm-Aging.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Holly N HellawellUniversity of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8208-8194
Ahmed M H A M MostafaUniversity of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8934-2186
Harry KyriacouUniversity of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0767-9004
Anoop S SumalUniversity of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6248-8572
Jonathan R BoyleCambridge University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge Vascular Unit, Cambridge, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An abdominal aortic aneurysm is an irreversible dilatation of the abdominal aorta. The majority of abdominal aortic aneurysms are asymptomatic and identified incidentally while investigating a separate pathology. Others are detected by national screening programmes and some present due to a growth or rupture. Symptomatic or ruptured aneurysms require urgent or emergency repair in patients fit for surgery. Perioperative practitioners should therefore be aware of how patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms present and are investigated, so that they can implement timely management. Guidelines have been recently updated to reflect this. This literature review discusses these recommendations and explores the evidence upon which they are based. The aim of this article is to highlight the important preoperative principles that need to be considered in cases of abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Indexed as

Aortic Aneurysm, AbdominalEmergenciesHumansMass ScreeningAbdominal aortic aneurysmCardiovascular diseasePreoperative periodScreeningVascular surgery

Identifiers

PMID32981453
PMCPMC8258725

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