Aortic Arch
Aortic uncrossing is indicated for symptomatic patients with a circumflex aorta causing significant tracheoesophageal compression. Case presentation The authors present a two-year-old child (12.4 kg) with dysphagia who was diagnosed with a circumflex aorta consisting...
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 James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...
Aortic uncrossing is indicated for symptomatic patients with a circumflex aorta causing significant tracheoesophageal compression. Case presentation The authors present a two-year-old child (12.4 kg) with dysphagia who was diagnosed...
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 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,...
A team of surgeons at National Heart Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia collaborated with a team from the University of Michigan to complete the first total aortic arch replacement in the...
The frozen elephant trunk (FET) technique allows for extensive aortic disease to be treated using a single procedure that combines open surgery with endovascular treatment. This technique has become increasingly...
A sixty-three-year-old man with a complex history, including a prior mechanical Cabrol procedure and subsequent total aortic arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk, presented to an outside hospital with...
Aortic root replacement and aortic arch replacement surgeries were performed on patients in Odisha, India for the first time recently. This achievement means that patients suffering from life-threatening aortic diseases...






