Background Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has increasingly emerged as one of the primary treatments for ...

Thoracic aortic dissection is often approached as an acute and localised event, and pathological examination has ...

Over 95% of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) rupture into the retroperitoneal space. Rare types of AAA ruptures comprise ruptures into the inferior vena cava with aortocaval fistula formation (ACF), ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is an extremely rare condition in paediatric patients but can occur more frequently in patients with congenital connective tissue diseases such as Marfan syndrome or ...

The Bentall procedure is a surgical operation used to treat aneurysms and other related conditions in the aorta where the aortic valve is damaged. The procedure involves the replacement of the patient ...

NAPLES, Fla. (WFTX) — A Southwest Florida doctor says he diagnoses patients with aortic aneurysms every week, a condition that often shows few symptoms until it becomes life-threatening. Joan Licato, ...

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether or not a person might someday suffer an aortic aneurysm, a deadly condition that often causes no ...

The aorta, also known as the main artery, is now categorized as an independent human organ. This has now been established in the guidelines for aortic surgical treatments of the European Association ...

NEW ORLEANS -- For older patients with acute dissections affecting the ascending aorta, a more extensive arch reconstruction surgery was not necessarily better, according to nationwide data. Between ...

Explanation of the relative high proportion of ruptures in our series can be found in the high occurrence of risk factors (eg, the high rate of heavy smokers, which is characteristic of the region; ...