Pulmonary hypertension (PH) risk grows over time for patients with narrowing of the aorta, the body's biggest blood vessel, ...

In patients with acute type A aortic dissection, receiving surgical repair at a high-volume aortic center is associated with improved survival.

However, this approach is unable to predict the majority of acute type A aortic dissections (ATAADs). The current study aims to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of ascending aortic diameter, length ...

Students who were thoroughly prepared with the textbook content were well-equipped to tackle the paper.” A good balance of diagrams and numericals was maintained, academic coordinator added that the ...

Maybe Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas get some mentions thanks to their vocal followers, but their spacefaring epic Jupiter Ascending is typically swept under the rug. A critical and financial ...

This depends on where along your aorta the tear occurs. Treatment also depends on where the tear is located. You will need surgery if the tear is on the ascending aorta. This is the part of the aorta ...

Background: Aortic dissection refers to the separation of aortic media and extension along the long axis to form the true and false chambers of the aortic wall. 65–70% of the patients died of cardiac ...

(2) In the second limb of their study, they leverage the national healthcare system of Denmark to demonstrate that first-degree relatives of patients with ascending aortic aneurysm have a 6.7-fold ...

Table 1. Demographics and morphometry in each patient of control and HH groups. The mean Reynolds number (averaged over a cardiac cycle) at the inlet of thoracic aorta has values of 1028 ± 101 and ...

The Mitroflow aortic prosthesis (Sorin Group Inc) is one of the most frequently used bioprostheses, with >100 000 implanted worldwide. 5 The bovine pericardium is mounted externally around the stent, ...