ALLMedicine™ Aortic Dissection Center

Feb 5th, 2023 - Surgical evaluation of lymph node metastasis is paramount in the treatment of cervical cancer. We sought to explore the outcomes of patients with and without para-aortic lymphadenectomy undergoing curative-intent radical hysterectomy for stage IA-...

Feb 5th, 2023 - Studies on the mid and long-term outcomes of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) are scarce. This study aimed to investigate the long-term outcomes of TEVAR for all-comers patients with various types of thoracic aortic pathologies, predomi...

Feb 4th, 2023 - Between 0.1% and 0.3% of all aortic dissections occur during pregnancy. Arterial hypertension, connective tissue disorders, and congenital cardiovascular anomalies-including bicuspid aortic valves-are well-known risk factors. The causality between...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Aortic endografting and antegrade in situ laser fenestration of visceral arteries (LFEVAR) may be considered as an alternative to open surgery for repair of emergent complex abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in fragile patients. The aim of this art...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Although physical exercise has established benefits for long-term cardiovascular health, concern regarding further aortic events has limited the evidence for exercise among aortic dissection (AD) patients. The objective was to perform a scoping re...

Jan 30th, 2022 - The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American Association for Thoracic Surgery clinical practice guidelines on the management of type B aortic dissection.|2022|MacGillivray TE,Gleason TG,Patel HJ,Aldea GS,Bavaria JE,|classification,surgery,surgery,sta...

Jan 30th, 2022 - The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American Association for Thoracic Surgery Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Type B Aortic Dissection.|2022|MacGillivray TE,Gleason TG,Patel HJ,Aldea GS,Bavaria JE,|surgery,

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...

Jun 12th, 2021 - 2021 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery expert consensus document: Surgical treatment of acute type A aortic dissection.|2021|Malaisrie SC,Szeto WY,Halas M,Girardi LN,Coselli JS,|therapeutic use,diagnostic imaging,mortality,surgery,diag...

Mar 21st, 2016 - Two guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and collaborating societies address the risk of aortic dissection in patients with bicuspid aortic valves and severe aortic enlargement: The "2010 ...

Feb 2nd, 2023 - Acute Aortic Syndrome (AAS) is a common feature of acute aortic wall events, including aortic dissection, intramural hematoma, aortic ulceration and aortic trauma, and occurs in up to 35 cases per 100,000 cases per year between the ages of 65 and ...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common congenital heart defect in adults, affecting 1.3% of the population worldwide. Although valve dysfunction is the most common complication of a bicuspid aortic valve, there is evidence of association o...

Jan 26th, 2023 - This is an observational study that establishes a cohort of patients with high risk chest pain who have been identified by CTA for aortic dissection. We then used this cohort to validate the accuracy of identifying aortic dissection based on extre...

Jan 13th, 2023 - Thoracic aortic aneurysms are silent, asymptomatic, potentially fatal pathologies due to the risk of aortic dissection. More and more often they are found during imaging tests done for another reason. Some aneurysms have genetic origin (autosomal ...

Jan 4th, 2023 - A single-center prospective study. Patients undergoing surgery for acute type A aortic dissection with femoral arterial cannulation between 2017 and 2022 at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden are eligible. Femoral cannulation ...

Dec 9th, 2022 - Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of aortic disease were published in November 2022 by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) in Circulation.[1,2,3,4,5] These recommendations replace the 2010 ACC...

Dec 7th, 2022 - Prenatal Tests Only Lightly Regulated There is no federal agency that checks to ensure that widely used prenatal tests work the way they claim before they're sold to healthcare providers, ProPublica reports. As many as half of all pregnant women g...

Dec 6th, 2022 - Heart failure associated with illicit use of the psychostimulant methamphetamine (MethHF) is increasing in the US and around the world across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups, a literature review indicates. MethHF is associated with increa...

Nov 15th, 2022 - Efforts to screen for ascending aortic enlargement in the general population may be improved using a new prediction model based on common clinical variables easily gathered from medical records, researchers found. The AORTA clinical score was foun...

Nov 3rd, 2022 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have published an updated guideline on the diagnosis and management of aortic disease, focusing on surgical intervention considerations, consistent imaging practices...