Surgery of the aorta: Why patients benefit when the vessel is now an organ

It is also thanks to Martin Czerny that the aorta was recently classified as a separate organ. The Freiburg heart and vascular specialist can rave about the boss among the blood vessels – and sees patients receiving better care in the future.

Professor Czerny, the aorta has recently been considered a separate organ, and you have played a key role in this. So much effort for a thick blood vessel?

The aorta can do much more than other blood vessels. You can see this because it is structured differently in each section. And each segment gets sick differently.

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