Long-Term Survival After Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair

Abstract

In this paper, the 10-year survival rate for elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias is statistically analyzed. It is a retrospective, observational and descriptive study of demographic and clinical variables on patients undergoing either open or endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair with respect to the variable exitus. The study comprises 256 patients who were treated for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair along the period fro January 2003 to December 2006. Groups of patients did not show a homogeneous behaviour, since diabetes, old age, cardiac and renal pathologies had a negative effect on their control and monitoring. The average 10-year survival rate amounts 37.9%, cancer being the major cause of mortality (lung cancer being the most frequent one) and cardiovascular diseases were the second major cause of patients death.