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Hans H. Moosa, MD; Andrew B. Peitzman, MD; David L. Steed, MD; Thomas B. Julian, MD; Fredric Jarrett, MD; Marshall W. Webster, MD

Arch Surg. 1989;124(6):673-675.

Abstract
• Inflammatory aneurysms of the abdominal aorta (IAAAs) have distinctive clinical and physical characteristics that separate them from typical atherosclerotic aneurysms. They were identified in 19 (7.2%) of 265 patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Symptoms were present in 12 (63%) of 19, with one patient presenting with rupture, and multiple symptoms were present in six (32%). Intraoperatively, all aneurysms exhibited dense periaortic inflammation. Adjacent structures most frequently involved were the duodenum in 15 (79%) of 19 patients, the left renal vein in six (32%) of 19, and the ureter in five (26%) of 19. Seventeen (94%) of the 18 patients who underwent elective aneurysm resection survived. The involvement of retroperitoneal structures varied in number and severity, demonstrating that a wide spectrum of inflammation is present in IAAAs, making diagnosis and definition difficult.

(Arch Surg 1989;124:673-675)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 14, 1988.

Read before a meeting of the Eastern Vascular Society, Washington, DC, May 9, 1987.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (Dr Moosa).

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