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This article, published in the European Heart Journal, discusses a case study of an 82-year-old patient who was found to have both a giant abdominal aortic aneurysm and a thoracic aortic dissecting aneurysm. Due to the patient's age and medical history, open surgery was deemed high-risk, and a one-stage operation was chosen to isolate both aneurysms. The authors used three-dimensional printing to guide the creation of fenestrations in sixth fenestrated physician-modified stent grafts. The patient had a successful operation and was discharged from the hospital without complications. [Extracted from the article]