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 Repair of the Descending Thoracic Aorta: Evidence for the Change in Clinical Practice Saiqa Sayed, MRCS; Matt M. Thompson MD, FRCS Vascular. 2005;13 (3):148-157. Results ...

Although measurement of the aortic-wall width usually is easily determined in the descending portion of the thoracic aorta, occasionally it is impossible to make this measurement in the ascending ...

An aneurysm is the ballooning in the wall of a blood vessel, reaching 1.5x its normal diameter. When an aneurysm occurs in the chest, it’s called a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA). If it occurs below ...

The distal part of the aortic arch and complete descending thoracic aorta were replaced with a Dacron graft (diameter, 24 mm) with the use of deep hypothermia, regional circulatory arrest, and ...

Three patients had non-small cell lung carcinomas and two had sarcomas. The proximal end of the stent-graft was placed in the aortic arch or descending aorta.

“We trained a deep learning model to evaluate the dimensions of the ascending and descending thoracic aorta in 4.6 million cardiac magnetic resonance images from the UK Biobank,” write the ...

The E‑vita open plus (JOTEC GmbH) is an endoluminal stent graft system designed for treating aneurysms and dissections of the thoracic aorta. The device is a 1-piece polyester fabric tube which ...

Larger BMI-indexed ascending and descending thoracic aortic diameters were significantly associated with increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes like stroke and death in both women and men.