Aortic Aneurysm
This case report describes a rare Type A aortic dissection that caused a pulmonary artery intramural hematoma and compression, which mimicked a saddle pulmonary embolism. The findings highlight the importance of prompt recognition to avoid...
This case report describes a rare Type A aortic dissection that caused a pulmonary artery intramural hematoma and compression, which mimicked a saddle pulmonary embolism. The findings highlight the importance...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jacques Kpodonu, a cardiac surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Assistant Professor of Surgery...
This report illustrates the lifesaving single-stage management of a ruptured pre-coarctation aortic arch in a 50-year-old female patient accompanied by a mediastinal false aneurysm. The principles were dual right subclavian...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Chris Malaisrie, a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern University and an Attending...
In the last decades, four different scores for the prediction of mortality following surgery for type A acute aortic dissection (TAAD) were proposed. Researchers aimed to validate these scores in...
This is the 2023 EACTS/STS guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic disease. For the first time, this document identified aorta as an organ. It main body contains the...
Acute type A aortic dissection is a highly morbid condition, with high mortality approaching about 40 percent. The authors of this article report that women tend to present with more...
This article is a registry review form an international voluntary registry. The retrospective historical data can be juxtaposed favorably with the recently published article on acute dissection in Denmark from...
As a part of the 2023 Australian Thoracic Aortic Symposium, Dr. Aung Oo presented on his methods for bottom-up thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Dr. Oo is a cardiothoracic surgeon at...
A number of interesting points are raised in this relatively short manuscript. The authors conclude that there is an unmet need for robust independent international registry data from the manufacturers...
An isolated left atrial (LA) aneurysm is a rare congenital abnormality. It can involve the left atrium or very rarely, the entire left atrium (1). The main concerns about the...
A seventy-six-year-old woman who is non-diabetic and a non-smoker presented with complaints of abdominal pain and was diagnosed with a thrombosed infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm. She was planned for open...




