title: Aesop's fables, the ant, the grasshopper, and prophylactic first-stage elephant trunk for moderately dilated descending aorta in patients with predominately proximal disease.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Electronic address: greason.kevin@mayo.edu.
authors.forename: Kevin L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Greason
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery*; D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000601:surgery*; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D057510:Endovascular Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male