"You're a 'high-risk' customer": A qualitative study of women's experiences of receiving information from health professionals regarding health problems or complications in pregnancy.

Background: Experiencing complications in pregnancy is stressful for women and can impact on fetal and maternal outcomes. Supportive encounters with health professionals can reduce the worry women experience. Further research is needed to understand women's perspectives on communicating with their healthcare providers about their concerns.

Morphology and Hemodynamics in Isolated Common Iliac Artery Aneurysms Impacts Proximal Aortic Remodeling.

Objective- Isolated common iliac artery aneurysms (CIAA) are rare. Their prognosis and influence on aortoiliac blood flow and remodeling are unclear. We evaluated the hypotheses that morphology at and distal to the aortic bifurcation, together with the associated hemodynamic changes, influence both the natural history of CIAA and proximal aortic remodeling.

Reintervention following endovascular abdominal aneurysm repair is uncommon after five-years: results of greater than a decade follow-up.

Background: Endovascular aneurysm repair offers improved perioperative morbidity and mortality compared to open repair, counterbalanced by a higher incidence of graft-related complications and re-interventions. Randomized studies comparing EVAR to open repair are yet to report greater than ten-year outcomes. This study reports the outcomes of patients who underwent EVAR greater than ten years ago.

Single-Center Experience Following the Introduction of a Percutaneous Endovascular Aneurysm Repair First Approach.

We evaluated our experience following the introduction of a percutaneous endovascular aneurysm repair (pEVAR) first approach using Perclose Proglide assessing efficacy, complications, and identification of factors that could predict failure. A retrospective cohort study on patients over a 2-year period following the introduction of a pEVAR first approach was performed. The primary end point was defined as successful deployment and access site hemostasis.

Endovascular or open repair strategy for ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: 30 day outcomes from IMPROVE randomised trial.

Objective: To assess whether a strategy of endovascular repair (if aortic morphology is suitable, open repair if not) versus open repair reduces early mortality for patients with suspected ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Setting: 30 vascular centres (29 UK, 1 Canadian), 2009-13.

Screening, diagnosis and advances in aortic aneurysm surgery.

Background: Aortic aneurysms are common in the elderly and a frequent cause of sudden death. As elective aneurysm repair has a mortality drastically lower than that associated with rupture, the emphasis must be on early detection and repair free from complications. Recent advances include ultrasound screening for asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and clinical trials on the size of AAA that require repair.