The 13-year-old died of internal bleeding caused when the seat belt severed his abdominal artery.

Death rates ranged from 1.4 percent for gallbladder operations to 18 percent for aneurysm in the abdominal artery.

Aortobifemoral bypass is done for PAD that affects the major abdominal artery (aorta) and the large arteries that branch off of it.

This month, surgeons removed a portion of Mr. Sharon's bowel that died, presumably from a blood clot that suddenly stopped the flow of blood in an abdominal artery.

The two boys were wearing lap belts in the back seat, and the force of the crash threw both into their lap belts, severing Chris's abdominal artery and injuring Jimmy's bottom three vertebrae, the suit said.

In angioplasty of the aorta (the major abdominal artery) or the iliac arteries (which branch off from the aorta), a small expandable wire-mesh tube called a stent is usually put in place at the same time.

A day after having surgery to repair a damaged abdominal artery, State Senator Joseph L. Bruno, the leader of the Senate's Republican majority, returned to work Tuesday and picked a fight with the state's Conservative Party.

During the procedure, an operation that can be done with local anesthesia, a doctor threads a special wire fitted with a tiny deflated balloon, no wider than a pencil lead, through the abdominal artery up into the coronary arteries, which supply blood to the heart.

The company's image is also still rebounding from an episode in which a former unit, Endovascular Technologies, pleaded guilty in 2003 to 10 felonies and agreed to pay $92.4 million to settle charges that it covered up deaths and other problems related to a device that treated weakness in the main abdominal artery.