Resumen

CHERCOLES CAZATE, Lilia E et al. Enfermedad ectasiante de la aorta abdominal: Morbilidad y mortalidad. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 1996, vol.35, n.1. ISSN 0034-7493.

The experience of ten years of work (1983-1992) was presented. During that period, 388 patients with the main of associated diagnosis of abdominal aortic aneurysm were managed at the "Saturnino Lora" Provincial Educational Hospital, at Santiago de Cuba. In the decade analyzed, 98 patients entered in angiology and vascular surgery, 176 patients entered in medicine, and 8 in other services. In arriving to the emergency room, 106 subjects deceased due to aneurystic rupture or aortic dissection. Masculine sex and urban origin were prevailing. Arterial hypertension was the disease most frequently associated in the operated patients, and ischemic cardiac disease, among the non operated. In the elective operated patients, the immediate complication with the highest occurrence was the thrombosis of a branch of the prosthesis, and bleeding in the urgent cases, while in the mediate complications, the elective operated patients presented bronchopneumonia, and the urgent cases had anemia and paralytic ileus

Palabras clave : ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM [diagnosis]; ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM [mortality]; ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM [surgery].