Aortic Aneurysmectomy

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The decision to resect the small, asymptomatic aneurysm of the abdominal aorta must be based on a comparison of the risk of surgery to the hazards of no treatment. Though progress in technics, prostheses and management has made elective resection of these arteriosclerotic aneurysms reasonably safe, the usual mortality of 5 to 10 per cent must have added to it an increment to account for late complications ending in death.Unlike many other arteriosclerotic lesions, the abdominal aneurysm is seldom the cause of chronic symptoms or of acute infarction in the peripheral distribution of the vessel involved. Rather, its clinical . . .

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