Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Conservative therapy
– Smoking cessation
– Lifestyle modification
• Medical therapy
– Beta blocker
– Control blood pressure
– IHD prevention
• Surgical therapy
– Conventional open aneurysm surgery
– Endovascular repair
Overview of AAA
• An aortic aneurysm occurs when the walls of the main blood vessel
that carries blood away from the heart (the aorta) bulges or dilates.