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 ...
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 ...
Patients who have an error in the gene known as LOX—shorthand for lysyl oxidase, the enzyme it encodes—are particularly prone to thoracic aortic aneurysm and ...
A recurrent genetic mutation has been linked to deadly thoracic aortic dissections in family members as young as 17 years of age. A multi-institutional team led by Dianna Milewicz, M.D., Ph.D., of The ...
DRAMATIC in onset and catastrophic in its consequences, dissecting aneurysm of the thoracic aorta is a common disease that poses difficult problems in management. The dismal outlook for patients with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BOSTON, MA—The presence of thoracic aortic calcification (TAC) is independently associated with adverse outcomes, even after accounting for the degree of coronary artery calcification (CAC), which is ...
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