Evaluation of the Quality of Life and the Quality of Sleep of postmenopausal osteoporotic women, without evidence of an osteoporotic fracture, who attended an outpatient DXA scan service.

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate whether impairment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and possibly, the quality of sleep (Sleep Quality - SQ), of osteoporotic women, may occur, even before the onset of an osteoporotic fracture.

Methods: The study included 109 women, divided (DXA) into two groups (age-matched): the Control Group (n=68; normal and osteopenic) and the Patient Group (n=41; osteoporotic). Review of medical history of the participants, was followed by evaluation of HRQOL and SQ with the EQ-5D-3L and the PSQI questionnaires, respectively.

Giant internal iliac artery aneurysm successfully treated with endovascular stent-graft placement.

An 88-year-old male patient of high surgical risk was presented with left sciatic pain symptoms and a palpable pulsatile left lower abdominal mass. He was operated 8 years ago for a large infrarenal aortic aneurysm. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) revealed a giant 161 mm left internal iliac aneurysm with multilocular appearance and left sacral bone erosion causing the symptoms.