Sentences with phrase «aortic aneurysm repair»

When compared to elective surgery, emergency surgery was 30 percent more expensive for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, 17 percent more expensive for coronary artery bypass graft and 53 percent more expensive for colon resection.

In new findings published online in the journal Annals of Surgery on December 19, 2014, researchers determined the hospital costs and risk of death for emergency surgery and compared it to the same operation when performed in a planned, elective manner for three common surgical procedures: abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, coronary artery bypass graft and colon resection.

Not exact matches

Brooke, along with co-researchers at Dartmouth College, examined records of more than 12,000 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent open surgery to repair a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a high - risk procedure, and almost 53,000 who received a ventral hernia repair (VHR), a lower - risk operation, between 2003 - 2010.

Approximately 13,000 people in the United States die each year from ruptured aortic aneurysms and another 45,000 undergo surgical repair.

In 2011, he underwent emergency surgery to repair an enormous aortic aneurysm.