Abdominal Aorta
This is the newly published latest version of Guideline on Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortic Aneurysm and Aortic Dissection developed by the Japanese Circulation Society, Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery,...
This is the newly published latest version of Guideline on Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortic Aneurysm and Aortic Dissection developed by the Japanese Circulation Society, Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery,...
The authors investigated the outcomes of thoracic endovascular aortic repair for retrograde Stanford type A acute aortic dissection (R-AAAD) at their institution. The early- and mid-term outcomes of thoracic endovascular...
This is a comprehensive review on ischemic spinal cord injury following of descending and thoracoabdominal aortic repair, including monitoring, early diagnosis, blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, and preventive measures.
...An interesting retrospective study on the efficacy of the the US screening program for aortic aneurysmal disease in the abdomen. The discussion on the detective importance of clinical examination being...
This review summarizes the current understanding of the inherited basis for aortic aneurysmal disease and clearly highlights the need to differentiate between thoracic and abdominal aortic manifestations. Approximately 20% of...
In this paper, Dr Coselli and colleagues analyzed their experience with spinal cord deficit (SCD) after 1114 extent II open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repairs performed from 1991-2017. The incidence of...
The European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery published The European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2019 clinical practice guidelines on the management of abdominal aortoiliac artery aneurysms. This is...
The medical therapies for thoracic aortic aneurysm comprise of β-adrenergic blocking agents and angiotensin II type I receptor. Several large randomized trials of pediatric and adult patients with Marfan syndrome...
On December 20, 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new warning against the use of fluoroquinolones in patients with connective tissue disorders and those predisposed to...
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...
Patient Care and General Interest A guideline for the number of opioid pills that should be prescribed after different surgeries, from cochlear implantation to coronary artery bypass grafting, is self-published...
A balanced comment on the occasion of the latest retrospective nonrandomised Coselli report on redo thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs). Raanani mentions the inappropriateness of endovascular techniques for Marfan syndrome patients,...

