{"id":11778,"date":"2021-03-22T17:43:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11778"},"modified":"2021-03-22T17:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T17:43:57","slug":"case-report-successful-open-surgical-repair-of-an-infrarenal-abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-aaa-in-a-young-malawian-female-a-case-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=11778","title":{"rendered":"Case Report: Successful open surgical repair of an infrarenal, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in a young Malawian female: A case report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Geoffrey Manda<\/strong> &#8211; Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords:\u00a0<\/strong>abdominal aortic aneurysm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A 39-year-old woman presented to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi\u00a0 with a 3-week history of worsening peri-umbilical abdominal pain radiating to the lower back associated with anorexia, nausea and vomiting. There was no history of trauma, diarrhoea, obstipation, fevers, or urinary symptoms. She reported history of \u2018spinal surgery\u2019 performed 6 years prior due to a herniated intervertebral lumbar disk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4>Journal Identifiers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>eISSN: 1995-7262<br>print ISSN: 1995-7262<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/192597-Article-Text-488135-1-10-20200129.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Manda &#8211; Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi. Keywords:\u00a0abdominal aortic aneurysm Abstract A 39-year-old woman presented to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi\u00a0 with a 3-week history of worsening peri-umbilical abdominal pain radiating to the lower back associated with anorexia, nausea and vomiting. There was no history of trauma, diarrhoea, obstipation, fevers, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11783,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions\/11783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}