Six months ago, Sam Einsidler lay on an operating table as doctors raced against time to repair his torn aorta.

If they had opened his chest, the way aorta-repair operations were conducted for the last 40 years, the 18-year-old from West Friendship might have died from other injuries that weakened his lungs, doctors said, or he could have been paralyzed.

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