ALLMedicine™ Aortic Dissection Center

Sep 23rd, 2021 - Spinal artery ischemia (SCI) events can result from over coverage of the descending thoracic aorta with a coated stent during Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR). The aim of this study was to determine whether a new distal perforating sten...

Sep 23rd, 2021 - A 55-year-old man underwent aortic repair for acute aortic dissection. The pseudolumen of the Valsalva sinus was reapproximated with BioGlue by placing a sponge inside of it to prevent the BioGlue from entering. Postoperative contrast-enhanced com...

Sep 21st, 2021 - A patient has presented with type A aortic dissection and computed tomography aortogram revealed proximal and distal aorta intimointimal intussusception. The patient has undergone successful aortic root replacement surgery and on the way to his re...

Sep 21st, 2021 - We report 2 cases of successful thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) for acute type B aortic dissection (ABAD) complicated with spinal cord ischemia (SCI). Case 1. A 70-year-old gentleman found with an uncomplicated ABAD with false lumen oc...

Sep 19th, 2021 - A 68-year-old woman with right aortic arch and aberrant left subclavian artery was urgently operated for type A aortic dissection. Surgical management included total arch repair with frozen elephant trunk technique and left subclavian artery re-im...

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 ...

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...

Dec 15th, 2015 - 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 ...

Dec 23rd, 2014 - Clinical policy: critical issues in the evaluation and management of adult patients with suspected acute nontraumatic thoracic aortic dissection.|2014| ,Diercks DB,Promes SB,Schuur JD,Shah K,|diagnosis,diagnostic imaging,therapy,diagnosis,diagnost...

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...

May 27th, 2021 - Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in bicuspid anatomy provides outcomes roughly similar to those with tricuspid aortic stenosis among patients at low surgical risk, a large national registry suggests. "Despite concerns about TAVR in bi...

Apr 15th, 2021 - Patients with aortic dissection (AD) or aortic aneurysm (AA) should not be given fluoroquinolones unless no other treatment options are available, the authors of a new report conclude. In a retrospective cohort study which used data from the Taiwa...

Mar 10th, 2021 - Compared with other antihypertensive agents, the use of beta blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) is associated with benefits in the long-term treatment of aortic dissection, a new stud...

Oct 15th, 2020 - People who have undergone bariatric surgery appear less likely to suffer an aortic dissection than other adults with obesity, researchers say. The finding is the latest in a series of benefits researchers have linked to the surgery, not all of whi...