abdominal aortic aneurysm

(MedPage Today) -- Patients treated by surgeons who perform more open vascular operations of various types have better outcomes following open repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, researchers found.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. -- African Americans who have an abdominal aortic aneurysm are less likely than Caucasians with the condition to have an elective repair, researchers here found.