Surgical Considerations of Aneurysms and Atherosclerotic Occlusive Lesions of the Aorta and Major Arteries

Abstract

This report is an analysis of aneurysms and atherosclerotic occlusive lesions based on the treatment of 3,324 patients in the past 10 years. Symptoms were relieved and pulses restored in 97 per cent of aortAiliac occlusions, 90 per cent of femoropopliteal occlusions, 95 per cent of operable lesions of the internal carotid artery, and 91 per cent of vertebral arterial occlusions. Mortality in 116 aneurysms of the descending thoracic aorta was 20 per cent, in 62 dissecting aneurysms 29 per cent, and in 829 aneurysms of the abdominal aorta 6 per cent.