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

WHAT DOES THE PHYSICIAN NOTICE?

The discovery is often made during a systematic abdominal exam:

The palpation discovers a beating and expansive mass at the abdomen level, usually painless, median or slightly left-handed. The “de Bakey’s sign” is the possibility to slip the edge of thehand between the superior pole of the mass and the ribs, evoking the subrenal seatof the mass.

The clinical exam is completed by the research of signs of the usually diffuse atheromatous illness: palpation and auscultation of the carotid arteries, the femoral arteries and the other arteries of the lower members.

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File last reviewed on dec 18, 2011