In a multicenter, retrospective review of patients admitted with intact and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), ...

CABG plus surgical aortic valve replacement for treatment of coronary disease and aortic stenosis was associated with better ...

The Zenith TX2 TAA Endovascular stent graft is designed as a two-piece modular system, although implantation of a single device may be sufficient for focal thoracic aortic lesions (see fig 8).

The condition can lead to complications as severe as thoracic aortic aneurysms, weakening of the aortic wall, and aortic stenosis, or narrowing of the aortic valve. Nonsyndromic means that the ...

ANEURYSMS of the thoracic aorta may be of diverse etiology. Atherosclerosis, syphilis, medial degeneration, trauma and occasionally sepsis have been implicated. 1–4 The present case represents a ...

"As an aside, the Ross procedure, which is my preference in this age group, is the only aortic valve replacement procedure that results in a late survival curve equivalent to an a ...

He never made it. Two desperate fleeing felons spotted his truck parked on a Coral Gables Street and saw an opportunity to further their escape. One of them, Ronnie Hill, was bleeding from a ...

Background Blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI) is an uncommon diagnosis, usually developing as a consequence of high-impact acceleration–deceleration mechanisms. Timely diagnosis may enable early ...

Morphometric measurements, including measurements of segmental length and tortuosity, were performed on three-dimensional models of the thoracic aorta. Results The length of the thoracic aorta was ...

aortic arch, thoracic aorta, and abdominal aorta. Then, a thickness measurement was taken on a dog bone-type sample, and a uniaxial tensile test was conducted. Histological staining was used to ...

Consideration of arterial dissections as a collective pathology allows insight from the better characterized dissection types, such as that involving the thoracic aorta, to be leveraged ... and in ...

The left subclavian artery receives oxygenated blood from the aortic arch (the top portion of the largest ... Aside from the axillary artery, the subclavian arteries branch into the internal thoracic ...