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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 23.08.2008
The condition, called an abdominal aortic aneurysm, involves a key artery that pumps blood around the body from the heart. Weakening and swelling and can go undetected until the section bursts, which is often fatal. Ministers have now announced a national screening programme for ruptured aneurysms to detect the condition and allow more people to have corrective surgery. A team at St Mary's Hospital in central London, have carried out the first operation to repair an aneurysm using a £400,000 robot. The new technique will reduce the operating time, add extra precision and allow more complex cases to be attempted. If extended across the whole country the robotic repair would mean an extra 10,000 to 20,000 patients could have their aneuryms treated.
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