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The repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in order to prevent aneurysm rupture and patient death represents one of the central tenets of vascular and endovascular surgery. The ability to predict AAA rupture is therefore of paramount importance. While maximum aortic diameter is an empirically proven metric in the prediction of AAA rupture, it is far from ideal.
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Nathan, D.P., Jackson, B.M. (2017). Wall Stress. In: Starnes, B., Mehta, M., Veith, F. (eds) Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23844-9_5
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