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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

Section of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center, CVC Room 5144, 1500 E Medical Center Dr SPC 5864, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5864

(Email: hjpatel@med.umich.edu).

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Thoracic endovascular approaches are rapidly gaining favor for treating descending thoracic aortic pathology. Dick and colleagues [1] present a comparative assessment of the quality of life after open aortic repair (OAR) and thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) of descending and thoracoabdominal aortic pathology. With the recent Food and Drug Administration's sponsored multicenter trials suggesting either improved or equivalent early outcomes, this analysis is timely and brings a very important question to the forefront for those of us practicing aortic surgery in 2008 [2, 3]. On one hand, we have OAR, which has a long track record of success, but carries with it a significant rate of morbidity and associated need for a long period . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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