bstratt
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While my Dad is still undergoing tests to determine what treatment, if any, is applicable to his Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, the meeting with the vascular surgeon was anything but reassuring.
His aneurysm is 5.9
Doctor said IF they could do it by a stent they would consider it but otherwise he would be better off just living with it - he quoted the odds of it blowing in the next 5 years at around 40% whereas the odds of him dying "under the knife" if they had to do more invasive surgery than a stent was 70%.
I find the 70% figure hard to believe. Is this true?
His aneurysm is 5.9
Doctor said IF they could do it by a stent they would consider it but otherwise he would be better off just living with it - he quoted the odds of it blowing in the next 5 years at around 40% whereas the odds of him dying "under the knife" if they had to do more invasive surgery than a stent was 70%.
I find the 70% figure hard to believe. Is this true?