Clinical Outcomes and InterventionsContextual and Gender ConsiderationsResearch and Knowledge Gapsabdominal aortic aneurysm
What are the differences between men and women for abdominal aortic aneurysms?
Professor Alun Davies explains that women are less likely to develop abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) than men. There is an argument for intervening at a lower threshold size for women (5cm) than men (5.5cm). A big topic of research is also whether women have poorer outcomes after surgery than men.
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Abdominal aortic aneurysms can occur in women. They occur in women far less commonly than they do in men and it is thought that while we use a threshold of 5.5 cm diameter for intervening in an asymptomatic aneurysm in men, there is an argument in women who are smaller that we should actually be taking a threshold of five centimeters as an indication for intervention in the asymptomatic patient. It is also worth noting that women maybe do not do as well from interventional therapy as men and this is a major research question that is actually being investigated at the moment.
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