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Surgical Treatment of Aortic Aneurysm in the AgedA Review of 100 Patients
Albert D. Hall, MD;
Jay R. Zubrin, MD;
Wesley S. Moore, MD;
Arthur N. Thomas, MD
AMA Arch Surg. 1970;100(4):455-460.
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Before resection and graft replacement was introduced nearly two decades ago,1 rupture and hemorrhage was a major cause of death in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms.2,3
In large reported series, the operative mortality rate for elective aneurysmectomy has been reduced 4% to 7%.4-6 Survival time has been significantly lengthened in the operated patients when compared with those followed without operation.7 Resection and replacement is now generally accepted as the treatment of choice in patients whose life expectancy is not limited by other diseases.8,9
The purpose of this report is to review the results of aneurysmectomy in the aged patient, and to evaluate the preoperative, operative, and postoperative factors that influence survival.
Materials and Methods
One hundred patients ranging in age from 60 to 85 years were studied (Table 1). This group of patients was selected out of the total aneurysmectomy series on the basis of
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Author Affiliations
San Francisco
From the Department of Surgery, Veterans Administration Hospital, and University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. Dr. Zubrin is now in the US Army Medical Corps, Vietnam.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 21, 1969.
Read before the 77th annual meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Dallas, Nov 21, 1969.
Reprint requests to Veterans Administration Hospital, 4150 Clement St, San Francisco 94121 (Dr. Hall).
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