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CR - AAA (Clinical exam (listen for bruits (poor clinical sign, turbulent…

- - - - routine exam
      - US
      - plain film abdo
- - - - aortic clamping
      - reperfusion injury (radicals deposit in lungs, kidneys, brain, heart)
      - laparotomy (large incision through abdo wall)
    - - mortality >1%
      - endoleaks
        
        type 1 = high pressure (must fix)
        
        type 2 = low pressure
        
        type 3 = holes in stent
        
        persistent blood flow outside of graft
      - graft migration/erosion
      - limb occlusion
      - pelvic ischaemia
  - - - midline
      - retroperitoneal
        
        preferred in a hostile abdo, inflamm, perivisceral AAA, horseshoe kidney
      - TV
    - - mortality = 5-10%
      - fistulation (further increases mortality)
      - CR problems
      - bleeding
      - colonic ischaemia (post/op diarrhoea)
      - limb ischaemia
      - hernia
      - sexual dysfunction