Does high proportion of known abdominal aortic aneurysm in patients with rupture indicate surveillance deficiency?
One-third of patients admitted with a rAAA had a previously detected AAA. The surgeons' decision to deny elective surgery and surveillance deficiency were the two main reasons for nontreatment at time of the AAA diagnosis. Improved patient-specific protocols to reduce the surveillance gaps and new methods of determining rupture risk in each case of AAA could be two possible future strategies to reduce the incidence of rupture.
All digital systems require less exposure than film for diagnostically acceptable radiographs, but this is less obvious for preferred radiographs. Solid-state systems alert the dentist when a too long exposure time is used by a lack of image quality; phosphor plate systems, however, produce good quality radiographs even at high exposure times, which may result in an unnecessarily high dose.