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Aneurisma - Treatment

Tratamiento:

Generalmente se recomienda la cirugía. El tipo de cirugía y el momento en que se necesita dependen de los síntomas y del tamaño y tipo de aneurisma.

A algunas personas se les puede realizar una reparación con un stent endovascular, una pequeña sonda utilizada para abrir un vaso sanguíneo o reforzar su pared. Este procedimiento se puede llevar a cabo sin una incisión grande, de tal manera que uno se recupera más rápidamente de lo que lo haría con una cirugía abierta. Sin embargo, no todos los pacientes con aneurismas son candidatos para la colocación de stents. Ver: embolización endovascular

Expectativas (pronóstico):

Con una reparación quirúrgica exitosa, el pronóstico generalmente es excelente.

Complicaciones:

Las principales complicaciones de un aneurisma son, entre otras:

  • Compresión de estructuras cercanas, como los nervios, lo cual puede llevar a debilidad y entumecimiento (más común con aneurismas que se presentan en la arteria poplítea).
  • Infección, que puede llevar a enfermedad sistémica y ruptura.
  • Ruptura, que puede causar sangrados profusos que pueden llevar a la muerte.

El sangrado profuso es común con aneurismas aórticos abdominales, aneurismas en la arteria mesentérica y aneurismas en la arteria esplénica.

La ruptura de los aneurismas cerebrales puede causar accidente cerebrovascular, discapacidad y muerte. Para mayor información, ver el artículo: aneurisma cerebral.

Situaciones que requieren asistencia médica:

Consulte con el médico si desarrolla una protuberancia en el cuerpo, sea o no pulsátil o dolorosa.

  • Reviewed last on: 8/13/2010
  • David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

Referencias

Isselbacher EM. Diseases of the aorta. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 78.

Zivin JA. Hemorrhagic cerebrovascular disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 432.

Hauser SC. Vascular diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 146.

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