The cardiovascular diseases

ANEURYSM OF THE ABDOMINAL AORTA

- Definition
- A few explanations
- The symptoms
- What does the physician notice?
- How to make the diagnosis?
- Once the diagnosis made, an operative check-up is required
- Complications
- The causes
- Clinical shape, Evolution, Prognosis
- Treatment, Conclusion

A FEW EXPLANATIONS

The aneurysm of the abdominal aorta especially occurs in the about sixty-year-old man because of the narrow relationship kept with the atheromatous illness (plates of cholesterol present in the arteries). This one destroys the elastic elements of the aortic wall then no more fulfilling its role of restitution of the systolic impulse (when the heart contracts, the ejection of blood provokes a natural dilation of the aorta) and thenbecomesdistended.

The tension of the wall of the aorta is proportional to its beam and to the B.P.: it is easily understandable that the evolution of the aneurysm evolvestoward the increase of volume, especially if the patient is hypertensive.

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