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Surgical therapy for abdominal aortic aneurysms has evolved into a safe and frequently performed procedure to prevent lethal rupture, with approximately 46,000 repairs in the US in 1992.
Surgical reconstruction for infrarenal aortic aneurysms has evolved into a safe and common procedure to prevent lethal rupture.
Historical evidence affirms procedural safety; leaves open relevance to contemporary endovascular outcomes and trials.
In 1951 the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms was revolutionized when Dubost et al. successfully replaced such an aneurysm with a homograft.1 Before that seminal operation, the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms was ineffective because there was no treatment that could prevent the lethal rupture of these aneurysms. The goal of surgical treatment was to prevent rupture, with acceptable rates of operative morbidity and mortality. Over the ensuing 46 years, surgical therapy has been refined so that aortic reconstruction has become a safe and frequently performed procedure, with approximately 46,000 repairs carried out in 1992 in the United States.2 Such . . .
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Calvin B. Ernst (1997) conducted a review in Infrarenal Aortic Aneurysms. Surgical therapy (aortic reconstruction) was evaluated. Surgical therapy for abdominal aortic aneurysms has evolved into a safe and frequently performed procedure to prevent lethal rupture, with approximately 46,000 repairs in the US in 1992.
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