Systematic review and meta-analysis of peak wall stress and peak wall rupture index in ruptured and asymptomatic intact abdominal aortic aneurysms

Singh, Tejas P., Moxon, Joseph V., Gasser, T. Christian, and Golledge, Jonathan (2021) Systematic review and meta-analysis of peak wall stress and peak wall rupture index in ruptured and asymptomatic intact abdominal aortic aneurysms. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10 (8). e019772.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Prior studies have suggested aortic peak wall stress (PWS) and peak wall rupture index (PWRI) can estimate the rupture risk of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), but whether these measurements have independent predictive ability over assessing AAA diameter alone is unclear. The aim of this systematic review was to compare PWS and PWRI in participants with ruptured and asymptomatic intact AAAs of similar diameter.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Web of Science, Scopus, Medline, and The Cochrane Library were systematically searched to identify studies assessing PWS and PWRI in ruptured and asymptomatic intact AAAs of similar diameter. Random-effects meta-analyses were performed using inverse variance-weighted methods. Leave-one-out sensitivity analyses were conducted to assess the robustness of findings. Risk of bias was assessed using a modification of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale and standard quality assessment criteria for evaluating primary research papers. Seven case-control studies involving 309 participants were included. Meta-analyses suggested that PWRI (standardized mean difference, 0.42; 95% CI, 0.14–0.70; P=0.004) but not PWS (standardized mean difference, 0.13; 95% CI, −0.18 to 0.44; P=0.418) was greater in ruptured than intact AAAs. Sensitivity analyses suggested that the findings were not dependent on the inclusion of any single study. The included studies were assessed to have a medium to high risk of bias.

CONCLUSIONS: Based on limited evidence, this study suggested that PWRI, but not PWS, is greater in ruptured than asymptomatic intact AAAs of similar maximum aortic diameter.

Item ID: 70453
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 2047-9980
Keywords: Abdominal aortic aneurysm, Biomechanics, Computed tomography, Finite element analysis, Imaging, Meta-analysis, Systematic review
Copyright Information: © 2021 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non- commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Funders: National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC)
Projects and Grants: NHMRC 1117061
Date Deposited: 30 Nov 2021 00:02
FoR Codes: 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3201 Cardiovascular medicine and haematology > 320101 Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases) @ 100%
SEO Codes: 20 HEALTH > 2001 Clinical health > 200104 Prevention of human diseases and conditions @ 100%
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