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Natural history of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms

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1 Natural history of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms
Randall B Griepp, MD, M.Arisan Ergin, MD, PhD, Jan D Galla, MD, PhD, Steven L Lansman, MD, PhD, Jock N McCullough, MD, Khanh H Nguyen, MD, James J Klein, MD, David Spielvogel, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 67, Issue 6, Pages (June 1999) DOI: /S (99)

2 Fig 1 Ruptured thoracic aneurysms in a Swedish population study, showing the increase found with increasing patient age. Data are from Johansson and colleagues [1]. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (99) )

3 Fig 2 The formula for calculating the probability of rupture of a degenerative thoracic aortic aneurysm: age is entered in years; maximal descending (desc dia) and abdominal diameter (abd dia) are entered in cm, and pain and COPD are scored as 0 if absent and 1 if present. To calculate the probability of rupture in a patient with chronic dissection, 0.4 cm should be added to the thoracic diameter in order to compensate for the smaller size of chronic dissections at the time of rupture. Data derived from Juvonen et al [6]. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (99) )


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