Changing fashions in the surgery of aortic aneurysms.
A 10 year survey of patients undergoing surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysms is presented. If it is possible to use a straight graft, the postoperative 30 day mortality and morbidity is lower.
D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000637:transplantation; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000601:surgery; D003106:Colon / Q000098:blood supply; D006801:Humans; D007511:Ischemia; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply; D012189:Retrospective Studies