Patent descending aortic false lumen in type A dissection is associated with limited long-term outcomes. Inoue and colleagues aimed to evaluate the efficacy of their group’s strategy for these patients.
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November 29, 2018
November 26, 2018
The authors compared the early and long-term survival in 9165 patients undergoing medical therapy (95%), open repair (2%), and thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR, 2.9%) for uncomplicated acute type B dissection. One- and 5-year survivals were 84% and 60% for medical therapy, 76% and 67% for open repair, and 85% and 76% for TEVAR (log-rank, P
October 23, 2018
Farhood Saremi and colleagues from the University of Southern California contributed a comprehensive review of the computed tomography angiographic (CTA) findings that improve the accuracy of diagnosis of thoracic aortic dissection and predict the outcomes of different management strategies for this highly lethal disease.
October 19, 2018
The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the European Society for Vascular Surgery released a joint expert consensus on the treatment of thoracic aortic pathologies involving the aortic arch, the first guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic arch disease.
October 6, 2018
This is a damning article about profiteering in academic publishing at the expense of researchers, institutions, and other interested parties.
September 26, 2018
This objective, well-researched, and well presented article summarizes the importance of gender inclusion in cardiothoracic surgery as a means for improving institutional culture, patient safety, patient outcomes, and gender equality.
September 18, 2018
This video demonstrates the steps of an acute type A aortic dissection repair.
September 13, 2018
Exciting debate on the EOLIA trial!
https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/extracorporeal-membrane-oxygenation-severe-a...
August 29, 2018
Hickey and colleagues discuss the assumptions that underlie regression models, and they detail approaches to identifying deviations from these assumptions. They illustrate several points using linear regression as the basis but also discuss logistic regression and Cox regression models.
August 27, 2018
This video demonstrates technical aspects of the authors’ approach to bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting in off-pump surgery.