ALLMedicine™ Aortic Dissection Center

Jan 20th, 2022 - Acute aortic dissection leads to the destabilization of the aortic wall, followed by an immediate increase in aortic diameter. It remains unclear how the aortic diameter changes during the dissection's acute and subacute phases. The aim of this st...

Jan 19th, 2022 - A 70s woman with a history of open-heart surgery presented with severe aortic stenosis (AS). CT showed chronic type B aortic dissection (TBAD) between the distal aortic arch and the left common iliac artery. After careful consideration, we planned...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Intraoperative and postoperative bleeding associated with allogeneic blood transfusion and reoperation is still a common and feared complication in patients undergoing surgery due to acute Type A Aortic Dissection (aTAAD). The aim of our study was...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Four-dimensional flow magnetic resonance imaging (4D flow MRI) can directly estimate turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) which is associated with pressure loss that are not assessable by other imaging modalities. A 55-year-old woman developed hemolytic...

Jan 18th, 2022 - Previous studies have demonstrated that admission hyperglycemia is a predictor of mortality and poor prognosis in patients with cardiovascular diseases, such as acute myocardial infarction. However, the prognostic value of admission hyperglycemia ...

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 ...

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 6th, 2021 - 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 ...

Dec 1st, 2021 - Marfan syndrome (MFS) affects multiple organ systems including the heart, bones, ligaments, and eyes, and is associated with significant risk of aortic dissection. Given anecdotal reports of aortic dissection, limited evidence from in-vitro studie...

Nov 19th, 2021 - Clinical trials using prospective, multi-center, single-group target value design; 120 subjects with aortic dissection requiring partial arch reconstruction will be enrolled in more than 30 centers in China, and they will meet the test enrollment ...

Nov 9th, 2021 - Acute type A aortic dissection is often accompanied by postoperative pulmonary complications, the cause of which is not fully understood.Angiotensin II is an important component of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), which has been suggested to be...

Oct 5th, 2021 - Patients with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, (AAA), will be identified within the vascular surgery practice. Those patients who meet standard indications for surgery including symptomatic AAA, size >5.0-5.5 cm, or rapidly enlarging >0.5 cm per 6 month...

Oct 6th, 2021 - A supplemental biologics license application (BLA) has been filed with the FDA for axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel; Yescarta) for the treatment of relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma and marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) following 2 or more pre...

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...

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...

Jan 11th, 2021 - Axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel; Yescarta) demonstrated high rates of durable responses in patients with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), according to extended follow-up results of the ZUMA-5 trial that were presented during the 2020 ASH Annu...