The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) today announced the launch of its latest surgical risk calculator designed for patients undergoing ascending aorta and aortic root surgery, with or without ...

The protocols offer a more accurate way to detect atherosclerosis and assess cardiovascular risk before symptoms appear, ...

HistoSeg is an Encoder-Decoder DCNN which utilizes the novel Quick Attention Modules and Multi Loss function to generate segmentation masks from histopathological images with greater accuracy. This ...

Bicuspid aortic valves are associated with ascending aortic pathology, but their impact on long‐term outcomes, including aortic growth and adverse events, remains unclear. This prospective ...

CHICAGO — A transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) device developed specifically for the treatment for aortic regurgitation has met all the prespecified safety and efficacy goals ...

The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, carrying oxygen-rich blood from the heart to every organ and tissue. It begins at the left ventricle, extends upward through the chest to form an ...

SCAD has a genetic component, with genome‐wide association studies identifying multiple risk loci. Thoracic aortic dissection (type A) shares some genetic overlap with SCAD, suggesting potential ...

Molecular and epidemiological studies of ascending aortic aneurysms – Research group Hanna Björck Prevention, Intervention and Mechanisms in Public Health (PRIME Health) – Cecilia Magnusson's research ...