Chicago Radiologists

Detection & Treatment at VIR Chicago for Your Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

An aneurysm is a bulge in the blood vessel caused by weakening of the blood vessel wall. One of the most common locations for an aneurysm is the main artery in the body – the abdominal aorta, called an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Rupture of this vessel accounts for 15,000 deaths per year, yet they may have no symptoms. This silent killer has been called “the U-boat in the abdomen.” Risk factors for aneurysm development include arteriosclerosis and cigarette smoking. Traditional treatment for an abdominal aortic aneurysm involves major abdominal surgery to “tie-off” the bad segment of vessel and do a bypass operation with polyester graft material. The Chicago radiologists of Vascular and Interventional Radiology are among the few in Illinois who can treat aneurysms with a new device called a stent-graft or endograft, which is released from inside the vessel to seal off the aneurysm from the inside out and is delivered to the abnormal vessel through small tubes that enter the leg arteries.

Website: http://virchicago.com/abdominal-aortic-aneurysms

Phone: (630) 856-7460

Email: info@virchicago.com