title: Invited commentary.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan. tkazui@hama-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: Teruhisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kazui
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D016019:Survival Analysis