ALLMedicine™ Acute Aortic Dissection Center

Nov 27th, 2022 - Marfan syndrome is one of the most common inherited connective tissue disorders that affects the heart, eyes, blood vessels, and bones. It occurs in approximately 1-2 per 10,000 individuals annually. Many patients with Marfan syndrome eventually d...

Nov 14th, 2022 - Hemorrhagic cardiac tamponade with blood clot formation in acute type A aortic dissection (AAAD) is extremely rare. We presented an 86-year-old female patient with hemorrhagic cardiac tamponade with blood clot formation in AAAD. In clinical practi...

Nov 13th, 2022 - Acute kidney injury (AKI) following repair of type A acute aortic dissection (TAAAD) has been shown to affect both short- and long-term outcomes. This study aimed to validate the impact of post-operative AKI on in-hospital and long-term outcomes i...

Nov 5th, 2022 - Approximately one-quarter of patients with acute type A aortic dissection (TAAD) present with concomitant malperfusion of coronary arteries, mesenteric circulation, lower extremities, kidneys, brain, and/or coma. It is generally accepted that TAAD...

Nov 4th, 2022 - We compared the location of the false lumen within the medial layer between acute intramural hematoma (AIH) and acute aortic dissection (AAD) using microscopic images of aortic specimens and examined the associations with patient characteristics, ...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) includes the entities of acute aortic dissection, intramural hematoma, and penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer. AAS typically presents with sudden onset of severe, tearing, anterior, or interscapular back pain. Symptoms m...

Jan 3rd, 2016 - Physicians and surgeons faced with patients with thoracic aortic disease (TAD) need to determine the underlying diagnosis to facilitate decisions regarding appropriate investigations as well as which other specialists to involve, when to start med...

Sep 27th, 2022 - Aortic dissection in pregnancy represents a lethal risk to both the mother and fetus, it has yet to yield the optimal therapeutic strategy. The aim of this study was to characterize the clinical features and outcomes in women with pregnancy-relate...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Hypotheses: Primary: HDR-approach is superior to ACT-approach in terms of suppressing thrombin generation after emergent surgery for acute aortic dissection (Stanford type A). Secondary: HDR-approach is superior with regard to early postoperative ...

Jul 25th, 2022 - Background and rationale. Acute aortic syndromes (AASs) are deadly and difficult to diagnose cardiovascular emergencies. AASs include acute aortic dissection, intramural aortic hematoma, penetrating aortic ulcer and spontaneous aortic rupture. A c...

Jun 8th, 2022 - For this study, 274 patients with TA-AAD admitted into our hospital between February 2019 and July 2021 were enrolled retrospectively. A total of 54 patients deceased unfortunately within 1 month following surgery. We compared baseline sociodemogr...

Mar 2nd, 2022 - Acute Type A Aortic Dissection A Debakey acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) represents a lethal condition with a risk of mortality of 1% per hour and up to nearly 50% in first 48 hours if left untreated.1, 2 Traditional surgical teaching has a...

Aug 15th, 2022 - The study covered in this summary was published on SSRN.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaway Higher levels of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in patients with acute type-A aortic dissection can i...

Mar 7th, 2022 - The Ross procedure was associated with a "striking" survival advantage over bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery for young and middle-age adults in a propensity-matched analysis. Over a mean 14.5 years of follow-up among a cohort o...

Oct 5th, 2021 - The American Heart Association decried the regulatory loopholes that allow flavored tobacco products to stay on the market and be used by young people. The shift to remote heart failure care during the pandemic was marked by less diagnostic testin...

Jun 15th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with type A acute aortic dissection (TAAD) were more likely to present late, with complications, and die in the hospital than men in an observational study. "The most significant finding of the study was indeed th...

Jun 8th, 2021 - Cardiorespiratory fitness trends and private health data sharing capabilities are coming to the iOS 15 operating system for iPhones and Apple Watches, Apple announced. But watch out for magnetic interference on implanted cardiac devices from iPhon...