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 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...
