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Life after open surgery
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Life after open surgery

Open aortic surgery can be life changing. Professor Mussa describes what to expect with years of feedback from patients and their families

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Having undergone open surgery for open surgical repair of chronic aortic section or an aneurysm of an after aortic section, this is a big operation that patients go through with their family so it's really important to have a good infrastructure within the institution to support the patients and their families because it does take a good toll on the patients and their family members. Life will gradually return back to normal. It takes a while, depending on the individual patient, of resuming their level of activity back to their baseline.

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