Furthermore, differentiating between impending and complete rupture has important repercussions on patient management and prognosis.
Absolute indications for surgery are impending or complete fractures of long bones and pelvic girdle, or untreatable pain, instability and spinal compression [4].
Some of the previously mentioned signs are not entirely specific to impending or complete AAA rupture and can be seen in other pathologies.
In impending or complete AAA rupture, a focal discontinuity of the intimal calcifications can be seen indicating the rupture site, which is most commonly observed on the posterolateral wall [18].
It is therefore crucial to recognise imaging signs of impending and complete AAA ruptures as proper identification of these rupture signs will have important repercussions on treatment promptness and prognosis.
The contemporary presence of an impending or complete femoral fracture should be an indication for acetabular cementoplasty during the same anaesthesia.
In light of the different stages in life, for instance impending or completed professional education, moving to a new city, into a shared or own flat, starting (one's own) family, reorientation to a routine working life among others, young adults are intuitively a very heterogeneous group.
Approximately 70% of patients with CIED infection present with overt infective signs in the region of the generator pocket (impending or completed device exteriorization, abscess formation, and purulent discharge), and in these patients, the need for extraction without additional investigation is well established.
In 1994, Yusuf et al. demonstrated that EVAR could also be used in emergency situations, such as impending and even complete AAA ruptures [9, 43].
This review describes the CT imaging findings that may help identify impending rupture prior to complete rupture.
