This bulge in the aorta is called an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). An aneurysm is a bulge or balloon that forms ... Therefore, your doctor needs to look at pictures (x-rays, CT scan) of your ...

Individuals with descending thoracic or abdominal aortic aneurysms usually do not have symptoms ... is another imaging modality to visualize your aortic aneurysm and vessels. Similar to a CT scan with ...

Eight patients died, but none of the deaths were related to abdominal ... defined as an aneurysm shrinkage of ≥ 5 mm; both were compared with the measurements on the former CT scan.

These patients had no 3-month follow-up but had 6-month CT scans. In the remaining 27 patients ... Because of progressive abdominal pain, surgical conversion with explantation of the stent ...