nurse's notes

ABDOMINAL ANEURYSMS ;
Clinical Manifestation:

• with pulsating palpable mass, produced a constant severe and boring pain

Untreated is eventually outcome is rupture and sudden death
Only surgery is the treatment and no medical treatment

Types of Surgical Intervention

• Excision of area affected
• replacement of excised segment by a bypass (Synthetic ) graft

Dissecting Aneurysm of the aorta

• an aneurysm with a tear in the intima of the aorta this permits blood flow to dissect its way into the substance of the aortic wall, resulting a formation of hematoma
• symptoms may resemble coronary occlusion
  

• this may involve renal artey, subclavian artery, popliteal artery or any major artery
• this cause pulsating mass and pain or pressure on the surrounding structure
• replacement graft are used to repair this aneurysms