The aorta is the main blood vessel that carries oxygen-filled blood from the heart to the rest of the body. It extends from the chest to the abdomen, where it branches (bifurcates) into the iliac ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysms are located between the diaphragm and the aortic bifurcation ... 4 and the common iliac arteries are often involved. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are usually asymptomatic ...

Wiring of abdominal aortic ... in the smaller (iliac) vessels. In 3 cases it proved easier to suture the lower ends of the bifurcation graft to the side of the external iliac arteries after ...