Assessment of abdominal aortic aneurysm wall distensibility with electrocardiography - gated computed tomography

Abstract

Despite the fact that abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is asymptomatic in the vast majority of cases, sudden rupture with a fatal outcome may still occur.In our opinion, electrocardiography - synchronized computed tomographic angiography may contribute to diagnostics in the future. Distensibility assessment could be another fragment of the diagnostic algorithm and decision making on intervention.

Keywords

• Assessment
• abdominal
• aortic
• aneurysm
• wall
• disensibility
• with
• electrocardiography
• gated
• computed
• tomography