A NEW GENTLER ANEURYSM TREATMENT

A new study may help older people and their doctors decide how to treat a very common and dangerous problem – a bulging abdominal artery threatening to burst.

Fixing these weak spots by inserting a fabric sleeve into the artery, like a new tube in a bicycle tire, led to fewer deaths and complications than traditional surgery to implant this patch, the study found.

The study involved more than 45,000 Medicare patients, average age 76, with "AAAs," or abdominal aortic aneurysms. More than 200,000 of these are diagnosed in the United States each year. The number is growing since the government recently recommended screening male smokers over 55 for the problem, which is often fatal if the vessel bursts.

In the study, nearly 5 percent of patients died after surgery, versus about 1 percent of those treated the less invasive way. After four years, the non-surgery group was three times more likely to suffer a rupture, but this risk was small and offset by other complications in the surgery group.

The study was led by doctors at Harvard University and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, with Medicare researchers. Results were published in New England Journal of Medicine.

Source: The Associated Press

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