Leaking Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm on Anticoagulants–Thromboelastography Assisted Management

SUMMARY: Rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a lethal event associated with a high mortality rate. In addition, the risk is compounded if the patient is on anticoagulants. Due to the recent advance in anaesthetic, operative and postoperative care, the patient if recovers from their emer...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Anjeleena Kr, Narani, K K, Sood, Jayashree
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640143
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description SUMMARY: Rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a lethal event associated with a high mortality rate. In addition, the risk is compounded if the patient is on anticoagulants. Due to the recent advance in anaesthetic, operative and postoperative care, the patient if recovers from their emergency repair has a good long term survival. We describe the anaesthetic management of an elderly male on anticoagulant therapy presenting with ruptured AAA.
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spelling pubmed-29001262010-07-16 Leaking Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm on Anticoagulants–Thromboelastography Assisted Management Gupta, Anjeleena Kr Narani, K K Sood, Jayashree Indian J Anaesth Case Report SUMMARY: Rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a lethal event associated with a high mortality rate. In addition, the risk is compounded if the patient is on anticoagulants. Due to the recent advance in anaesthetic, operative and postoperative care, the patient if recovers from their emergency repair has a good long term survival. We describe the anaesthetic management of an elderly male on anticoagulant therapy presenting with ruptured AAA. Medknow Publications 2009-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2900126/ /pubmed/20640143 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gupta, Anjeleena Kr
Narani, K K
Sood, Jayashree
Leaking Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm on Anticoagulants–Thromboelastography Assisted Management
title Leaking Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm on Anticoagulants–Thromboelastography Assisted Management
title_full Leaking Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm on Anticoagulants–Thromboelastography Assisted Management
title_fullStr Leaking Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm on Anticoagulants–Thromboelastography Assisted Management
title_full_unstemmed Leaking Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm on Anticoagulants–Thromboelastography Assisted Management
title_short Leaking Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm on Anticoagulants–Thromboelastography Assisted Management
title_sort leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm on anticoagulants–thromboelastography assisted management
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20640143
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