[Twenty Years Experience of the Surgical Treatment of Giant Ascending Aortic Aneurysms]

E R Charchan; A B Stepanenko; A P Gens; A A Skvorstov; N A Galeev; Yu V Belov

[Twenty Years Experience of the Surgical Treatment of Giant Ascending Aortic Aneurysms]

Kardiologiia. 2015 Sep;55(9):37-42.

[Article in Russian]

Authors

E R Charchan¹, A B Stepanenko¹, A P Gens¹, A A Skvorstov¹, N A Galeev¹, Yu V Belov¹

Affiliation

¹ Russian Research Center of Surgery named after Academician B.V. Petrovsky, Moscow, Russia.

PMID: 28294922

Abstract

Giant ascending aortic aneurysm is one of the worst lesions of the cardiovascular system. Timely surgical treatment provides the only chance to prolong the lives of such patients. Life expectancy without surgery in these patients is minimal; they die from a ruptured aneurysm.

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