Fifty studies of endoluminal stent graft repair of patients with thoracic aortic lesions were retrieved. The three most common pathologic lesions treated included thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAAs), ...
June 14, 2010 (Dallas, Texas) — The new American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement on surgical management of descending thoracic-aortic disease stresses that the durability of endovascular ...
The aorta is the largest artery in the human body, supplying branches to all organs and tissues of the body. It has a thick wall of muscle and elastic fibers that allows it to expand and contract with ...
The arterial vasculature is the second most frequently calcified structure in the human body after the skeleton. Calcification of the aorta and aortic valves occurs in most individuals in westernized ...
Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This “false lumen” can ...
AS medicine develops, and its progress affords new diagnostic and therapeutic technics, it is fascinating to see the emergence of pathologic entities that have always been present but have not been ...
Case Report: A 2-year-old female was referred to our hospital because of fever, skin rash, conjuncvital injection, strawberry tongue and erythema and edema of the hands and feet. Under the diagnosis ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Absolute risk for aortic dissection was low among a cohort of patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms as large ...
Another particular vascular syndrome that associates TAA/AD and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) has been suggested in a single family. 13 We report here the study of a large three-generation French ...
An abnormally enlarged aorta (aortic aneurysm) can tear or rupture and cause sudden cardiac death. Unfortunately, patients often show no signs or symptoms before the aorta, which carries blood from ...
According to two recent studies, a nonsurgical treatment using stent-grafts to repair an injured or diseased thoracic aorta offered patients less risk of paraplegia as well as lower morbidity and ...
DEAR DR ROACH: My husband will be 83 in September and was recently diagnosed with an ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm measuring 4.8 cm. Five centimeters is when they do something. After hearing ...
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