Female and Elderly Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Patients More Commonly Have Concurrent Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm

AAA patients, in general, should be offered examination of the thoracic aorta, and special attention needs to be paid to female AAA patients and AAA patients at high age, if the AAA patient is considered operable. Surveillance of AAA patients must improve to enhance identification of the large group of patients who have developed, or will develop, TAAs. Future strategies will, of course, address pathophysiological aspects of aneurysmal development in the thoracic and infrarenal aorta.