ALLMedicine™ Aneurysm Center

Jan 22nd, 2022 - The purpose of this article is to review the contemporary evidence supporting valve-sparing aortic root replacement as the best option for patients with aortic root aneurysms and preservable aortic valves as well as to review the technical variati...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) provide evidence-based information on patient management; however, methodological differences exist in the development of CPGs. This study examines the methodological quality of A...

Jan 22nd, 2022 - Concurrent epistaxis, embolic stroke and a ruptured internal carotid artery are rare but life-threatening delayed complications of cured nasopharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma. A timely diagnosis and effective management can be problematic. We rep...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) are encountered frequently in the emergency department with an obscure presentation. Most of these aneurysms are incidentally discovered while doing routine imaging studies. This report describes a case of unusual p...

Jan 21st, 2022 - Postoperative intracranial infection after intracranial aneurysm is relatively common in clinical setting; it is necessary to analyze the clinical risk factors of postoperative intracranial infection, to provide reliable evidence to the management...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Cerebrovascular disease is a broad topic. This document focuses on the imaging recommendations for the varied clinical scenarios involving intracranial aneurysms, vascular malformations, and vasculitis, which all carry high risk of morbidity and m...

Mar 31st, 2021 - The 2021 guidelines primary panel selected clinically relevant questions and produced updated recommendations, on the basis of important new findings that have emerged since the 2016 guidelines. In patients with clinical atherosclerosis, abdominal...

Feb 7th, 2021 - Society for Vascular Surgery implementation of clinical practice guidelines for patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm: Repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.|2021|Rokosh RS,Starnes BW,Chaikof EL,|diagnostic imaging,mortality,surgery,diagnost...

Jul 7th, 2020 - Thoracic aortic diseases, including disease of the descending thoracic aorta (DTA), are significant causes of death in the United States. Open repair of the DTA is a physiologically impactful operation with relatively high rates of mortality, para...

Dec 11th, 2019 - An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is typically defined as aortic enlargement with a diameter of 3.0 cm or larger. The prevalence of AAA has declined over the past 2 decades among screened men 65 years or older in various European countries. The c...

Jan 19th, 2022 - Stroke can be linked to atherosclerosis of the large vessels, occlusion of the small intracerebral vessels (gaps), cardioembolic pathology or other rarer etiologies. The cardioembolic etiology of stroke in elderly patients may be difficult to prov...

Jan 19th, 2022 - The strength of movement which are applied on the EVAR are not only cranio-caudal but also lateral. The movement of the EVAR's body within the aneurysm could be an instability's criteria of the EVAR. The investigators would like to show that this ...

Jan 19th, 2022 - The acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic requires a redefinition of healthcare system to increase the number of available intensive care units for COVID-19 patients. This leads to the postponing of elective surgeries including the treatment of abd...

Jan 19th, 2022 - The primary objective is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of surgeon modified endografts for the treatment of pararenal and thoracoabdominal aortic pathology in patients who are not candidate for traditional open repair due to comorbid iss...

Jan 13th, 2022 - When a blood vessel just outside the brain bursts and causes bleeding onto its surface, the space surrounding the brain (the subarachnoid space) fills with blood. This condition is called subarachnoid hemorrhage. The bleeding due to the rupture of...

Jan 6th, 2022 - Smoking marijuana may be risky after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). A new study shows a significant association between cannabis use and delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) after aneurysm rupture, with nearly three times the risk of DCI an...

Nov 24th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients undergoing endovascular repair of an intact abdominal aortic aneurysm have a lower risk of death in the short term than do those undergoing open surgery, according to new findings. But the picture changes over ...

Nov 11th, 2021 - Researchers are reporting a novel association between insomnia and both intracranial aneurysm and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). The investigators used a Mendelian randomization to investigate whether modifiable lifestyle and cardiomet...

Nov 10th, 2021 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has long kept a watchful eye over successive iterations of endovascular stent graphs in the Endologix AFX line, designed for repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). For years, the devices, first approv...

Oct 8th, 2021 - Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) seems to be relatively safe for acute ischemic stroke patients who have even larger-sized saccular unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIAs), a Finnish study suggests. "I think there is now sufficient evidence that sa...