It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

Sunday marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, signaling the start of astronomical winter Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead. Sunday ...

In performing open arch replacement, surgeons at our center and others currently prefer to reattach the individual brachiocephalic branches separately, rather than reattaching a single island of ...

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the factors affecting false lumen patency in the descending thoracic aorta among patients who underwent surgery for acute type 1 aortic dissection.

ABSTRACT: This sociological study looks at how marijuana use affects college students’ academic performance in the Pakistani city of Mardan. The study was specifically designed to determine how ...

Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is a minimally invasive surgery that may be used for aortic aneurysms. It involves placing a stent into the aorta to prevent a life threatening aneurysm rupture.

Background— Thoracic endovascular aortic repair offers a less invasive approach for the treatment of ruptured descending thoracic aortic aneurysms (rDTAA). Due to the low incidence of this ...

The aortic valve sits between the heart’s left ventricle and the aorta. It opens and closes with the heartbeat to allow blood to flow to the body without leaking back into the heart. It may need to be ...

An aortoenteric fistula is a rare but life threatening complication of aortic surgery requiring immediate surgical repair. Early symptoms include abdominal pain or vomiting blood. A fistula is an ...

In a large, single-center, retrospective and prospective registry of patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS) seen between 1982 and 2023, type B dissection occurred more commonly than did type A dissection ...