Ascending Aorta
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with David Waller, Chair of the EACTS Emphysema Taskforce and Director of the EACTS Fundamentals Course in Thoracic Surgery, about the EACTS expert consensus document...
The authors present a video describing the surgical management of a 38-year-old female patient with a 5.1 cm ascending aortic aneurysm, aortic root dilation, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation that required...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Traves Crabtree, Professor and Chair of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medical Director of the Surgical Skills Laboratory...
This technical report describes the SUpra-annular PERceval Bentall (SUPERB), which utilized a Perceval Plus XL sutureless bovine pericardial valve inside a 28 mm Valsalva Dacron graft. Ex vivo testing involved...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with CTSNet Senior Editor—Global Emily Farkas, Associate Director of Global Health in Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine,...
This retrospective cohort study aimed to evaluate the association between symptom-to-admission time and postoperative outcomes following Type A acute aortic dissection (TAAD) repair. Analyzing 1,228 patients treated within 72 hours...
This multicenter study from the TITAN trial examined the quality of life in 157 patients with moderate ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAA) undergoing surgery (n=52) or surveillance (n=105) between 2019...
A detailed , open and stimulating discussion of a presentation in the AATS . The presenter responds to peer questioning on the technical aspects of the evolution of hubrid interventions...
This video is a balanced, gripping presentation on an increasingly common emergency problem for the on-call cardiac surgeon. Professor Oo discusses the evolving landscape of surgery for acute De Bakey...
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...
In this article the authors aimed to report the midterm outcomes after endovascular aortic repair in patients with Marfan or Loeys-Dietz syndrome. Patients were analyzed based on the timing of...
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...



