Cook Medical announced that its Zenith iliac branch device (ZBIS) is now commercially available in the United States. The ...

A 68-year-old man with 1 week of bloating and constipation undergoes CT, which reveals Stanford type B aortic dissection ...

The Queensland man's aorta, the biggest blood vessel in the body, had ballooned to about four times the usual size, leaving it in danger of rupturing.

TAR was defined as an aortic repair involving the whole aortic arch including its branches using the conventional elephant trunk or the hybrid FET techniques. The hemiarch repair was defined as an ...

Conclusion: Aortic arch branch cannulation is a feasible and safe arterial perfusion strategy for ATAAD surgery via a minimally invasive single upper hemisternotomy. Among the options, the innominate ...

The aortic arch and its branches, together with the ductus arteriosus, route the blood from the heart into the embryonic circulation; these vessels are derived from the 3 symmetrical pairs of the ...

Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) describes the acute presentation of patients with characteristic «aortic pain» caused by one of several life threatening thoracic aortic conditions including aortic ...

Sparce evidence suggests superiority of total arch replacement with branch-first technique (BF-TAR) and antegrade cerebral perfusion (ACP) over conventional techniques with respect to morbidity and ...

In this study, we use the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Aortic Geometry Extraction Techniques to study the blood flow through the human aortic arch geometry, which is constructed from a set of CT ...

Interrupted aortic arch (IAA) is a serious congenital heart anomaly, often associated with other cardiac abnormalities which make its treatment complex. It is found, in at least one out of four ...