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[Members Only] J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 113(3): 283-287, 2012
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RECENT ADVANCES IN THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF AORTIC DISEASE IN JAPAN
The annual survey by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery in 2010 found that the nationwide hospital mortality rate after surgery was 11.1% in 3,628 patients with acute type A aortic dissection, 18.9% in 158 patients with acute type B dissection, 6.0% in 866 patients with chronic type A dissection, 6.6% in 724 chronic type B dissection, 4.3% in 6,348 patients with nondissection thoracic aortic aneurysm, and 24.8% in 715 ruptured thoracic aneurysms. For abdominal aortic aneurysms, the hospital mortality rate after elective surgery was 2.3% and 15.3% in ruptured aneurysms among 7,906 patients nationwide. These results are superior to the results of aortic surgery in Western countries.
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