Aortic Arch
Mediastinal lipomas are benign, slow-growing masses that can present as large masses due to their insidious onset (1). Symptoms associated with these lipomas are generally due to mass effect, such as dysphagia, shortness of breath,...
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...
Mediastinal lipomas are benign, slow-growing masses that can present as large masses due to their insidious onset (1). Symptoms associated with these lipomas are generally due to mass effect, such...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Ahmed Ghazy, Head of Minimally Invasive Surgery at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, about robotic cardiac surgery...
This video illustrates the case of a 10-day-old female neonate (2.8 kg) with antenatal diagnosis of Type A interrupted aortic arch (IAA). Preoperative echocardiography showed Type A interrupted aortic arch,...
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...
In this mandatory national clinical registry analysis of acute aortic dissections, in-hospital mortality was 18 percent in 859 patients who underwent repair of type A dissections vs. 52 percent in...
With the evolution of technology, thoracic endovascular repair (TEVAR) has been implicated in complex aortic pathologies including acute aortic syndrome. In this case, a seventy-seven-year-old man with a history of...
As a part of the 2023 Australian Thoracic Aortic Symposium, international guest presenter Prof. Nikos Tsilimparis presented on his state-of-the-art method for total endovascular aortic arch repair. Prof. Tsilimparis is...
This video illustrates surgical repair of double aortic arch through a sternotomy. Double aortic arch is the most common type of vascular ring malformation. It involves complete encirclement of the...
This video presents the case of a six-day-old boy with truncus arteriosus, interrupted aortic arch, ventricular septal defect (VSD), patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), and patent foramen ovale (PFO). A preoperative...
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,...
This expert single-center series analyzes 1,429 ascending aorta and arch replacements performed between 1991 and 2020 with circulatory arrest at nadir temperatures of 14 to 20°C with retrograde cerebral perfusion,...






