ABSTRACT
Infrarenal Aortic Aneurysm Repair E. John Harris, Jr. The treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms began with the historic procedure
reported by Dubost in 1951, resection of the aneurysm and replacement with an aortic homograft. Within a short time period multiple surgeons throughout the world were duplicating and subsequently modifying Dubost s procedure with the use of various prosthetic grafts, establishing aortic reconstruction with prosthetic grafts as the treatment of choice for abdominal aortic aneurysms. Since that time, further development and improvement of prosthetic grafts, refinements in opera tive technique, and improvements in perioperative intensive care and monitoring have established direct graft replacement of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms as the standard of care.
