Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) progression and disease resistance are related to
transmural degenerative processes and an inflammatory infiltration (INF). Diabetes is …

Objective: Purpose of this study is to provide detailed age-and gender-specific mortality risks
of patients hospitalized for elective AAA repair. Summary Background Data: Whether to …

Background Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a cardiovascular disease characterized by
a high mortality rate when ruptured. Some studies suggest a potential inverse correlation …

Aims To quantify the difference in long-term survival and cardiovascular morbidity between
women and men undergoing elective abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair at National …

Are people with diabetes mellitus at reduced risk of acute aortic dissection? It would be a
sweet surprise, but the provocative question relates to the findings of a nationwide case …

OBJECTIVES Our aim was to investigate the outcome of patients with diabetes undergoing
coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery in a whole population with main focus on …

Objective/background It has previously been shown that post-operative lower extremity
weakness (LEW) is associated with elevated blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) glucose …

Background The aims were to assess the evidence that individual hospitals had mortality
rates in excess of the national average after abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair and to …

Background/Objectives: Although endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair
(ENDO) has decreased operative morbidity risks compared with open AAA repair (OPEN) …

OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate an “in house” risk model for predicting perioperative
mortality following elective AAA repair and to compare this with other models. DESIGN …