On Wednesday, doctors at the Da Nang General Hospital, with support from specialists of the National Cardiovascular Institute, performed a successful emergency surgical intervention on a 48-year-old local man.  This is the first time in the central region and highlands that surgery on a patient with a thoracic aortic aneurysm has been performed.

The patient had been rushed to the hospital in a serious condition with tightness in his chest, shortness of breath, and high blood pressure.  

With the help of a CT scan, doctors detected the thoracic aortic aneurysm.  They decided to place a wire frame of stent grafts inside and outside the swollen blood vessel in order to prevent it from bursting.  After his 3 hour-long operation, the patient is now recovering well.

The patient after his operation