In this first of a series of episodes focused on Vascular disease, host Rick Greene, MD, FACS, joins vascular surgeon Girma Tefera, MD, FACS, in a discussion of aortic aneurysm disease, reviewing current screening guidelines, disease etiology, and the impact of cigarette smoking on disease progression. The conversation also addresses aortic aneurysm disease’s epidemiology, aneurysm definitions and classifications, and current modalities of treatment, including open surgical and endovascular approaches and their outcomes.

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