Surgical treatment of thoracic aorta diseases
Here we have analyzed the results of surgical treatment of 85 patients with thoracic aorta pathology in the period between 2000 and 2010. The average age of the patients was 47±5,2 years, the majority were mail (56 persons, 66%). 84 patients underwent operations. The patients with dissecting aortic aneurysm, regardless of its localization, were operated urgently after a necessary minimal examination. 13 patients died (15.3%), one of them before the surgery, because of a bleeding that started as a result of infection and rupture of xenopericardial valved conduit that had been introduced earlier. Postoperative lethality amounted to 14.1 % (12 patients): 7 persons died of acute myocardial weakness, 2 of bleeding, 2 of polyorganic insufficiency syndrome, and 1 of respiratory insufficiency. Success rates depended on the technical equipment and the concentration of patients with aortic pathology in the most experienced centers.