回烏拉瑰:
我寫有AAA的資料。為了和孩子溝通,用英文寫的。指定了小兒惟年這次協助我和醫院聯繫。也和兩個女兒與小兒講了,爾後任何不預期狀況下,二姊和小兒必須和大姊商量後決定。這個家庭遵守長幼有序,拋棄男尊女卑了。一切事情大姊做主。資料如下:
AAA (Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm) 腹動脈腫瘤
Factors to cause AAA:
1 High blood pressure (Hypertension)
2 Diabetes
3 High cholesterol
4 Smoking habit
From both paternal and maternal genetic heritages, this family are exposed to the danger of having hypertension and/or diabetes which would very likely trigger AAA to the members of the third generation, or even those of the fourth generation. As for high cholesterol, it is contingent upon whether or not we follow a good diet. We deem it an accompanied rather than a main factor.
Over the past decade, most surgeons have preferred Endovascular Graft (Endograft) to Open Surgery to treat AAA. However, The former is latented the possibility of failures beside its less mortality and various morbidities as the credit. If the failure occurs, there are usually two methods to fix the problem as follows:
Method One, Secondary Intervention: After evaluating and locating (pining down) the problem by a CT Scan, in some cases, the problem may be able to be fixed by the technique of catheterization, similar one to the original Endograft.
Method Two, Open Sugery Repair (OSR): Unlike the original OSR, this OSR is to fix the stent implanted within the abdominal artery. A surgeon may choose to remove the damaged (not working) part of the stent, replaced and sutured at the right place. The operation per se actually is 'Big' one which may bring on higher morbidities and larger mortality. Patients accepted OSR will stay in ICU and hospitalization much longer. OSR is the last resort for curing this deaease.
* Cutting off the stented part results in 67% of death rate, compared with less than 10% of mortality for the original OSR.
Albert Einstein died of the rupture of AAA in 1955. He had experienced a terribly painful death beyond any word to describe it. There was no cure at all in the 50's on account of lacking any durable synthetic material to patch the rupture prone part of hauman artery. This deaease needs us to pay more attention to. |