[Recent advances in the surgical treatment of aortic disease in Japan].
The annual survey by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery in 2010 found that the nationwide hospital mortality rate after surgery was 11.1% in 3,628 patients with acute type A aortic dissection, 18.9% in 158 patients with acute type B dissection, 6.0% in 866 patients with chronic type A dissection, 6.6% in 724 chronic type B dissection, 4.3% in 6,348 patients with nondissection thoracic aortic aneurysm, and 24.8% in 715 ruptured thoracic aneurysms. For abdominal aortic aneurysms, the hospital mortality rate after elective surgery was 2.3% and 15.3% in ruptured aneurysms among 7,906 patients nationwide. These results are superior to the results of aortic surgery in Western countries.
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D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000592:standards