Acute cases are often caused by infective endocarditis or aortic dissection in the ascending aorta. Chronic cases, which may be symptom-free for years, result from valve deterioration, thoracic aortic ...

Abstract: Objective: Computational modelling of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAA) typically assumes zerodisplacement at the model's inlet. In this study we incorporated different types of ...

2009.65 Park, J, Suhk, J & Nguyen, AH. 2015. Nasal Analysis and Anatomy: Anthropometric Proportional Assessment in Asians—Aesthetic Balance from Forehead to Chin, Part II. Semin Plast Surg. Nov; 29(4) ...

Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is an indolent, potentially fatal disease, which progresses at variable rates that are influenced by pathogenesis and patient characteristics. We conducted a systematic ...

Professor Anders Franco-Cereceda is Research group leader of the group Thoracic Surgery at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery. The overall aim of the research, education and development ...

Given CAVD does not occur uniformly with ageing, additional factors may modulate the effect of normal oscillatory shear stress in the initiation of CAVD. As of yet unrecognised genetic or acquired ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysms affect around 1.1 million people between the ages of 50 and 84 in the United States. A thoracic aortic aneurysm forms in the portion of the aorta in the chest ...