Local repair of distal thoracal aortic dissections (Locus minoris resistencia)
Iu V Belov1, R N Komarov, A B Stepanenko
1Department of Surgery of Aorta and its Branches, B V Petrovsky Russian Scientific Center of Surgery, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia. belov@mail.med.ru
Abstract:
The paper presents the method of local repair of distal aortic dissections. Local aortic grafting for surgical correction of type B dissecting aortic aneurysms helped to decrease hospital mortality up to 15.4%, the rate of paraparesis and multiorgan failure - up to 11.5%.
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