Ascending Aorta
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 operative treatment. Both valve-sparing aortic...
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,...
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 newly published review on aortic valve sparing operations includes history and development, technical modifications, contemporary outcomes, and future directions.
...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,...
The risk of dissection associated with fluoroquinolone use has gained wide acceptance, but recent data indicate there’s more to the story. Pasternak and colleagues report a Swedish, multicenter, propensity-matched study...
This single-center study of 299 patients operated on for type-A aortic dissection between 1992 and 2020 reported lower ten-year mortality (32 percent) after prosthetic or valve-sparing root replacement compared with...
By analyzing a cohort of patients with aortic aneurysms who were not undergoing surgery, this study aimed to determine the natural course of an aortic aneurysm. The patients’ ascending aortic...
This study compares the clinical outcomes of two operative strategies for type A aortic dissection with true lumen collapse and malperfusion downstream, which is associated with a devastating prognosis. The...
On December 14, the family of the famous American soccer journalist, Grant Wahl, announced that autopsy confirmed a ruptured aneurysm in the ascending aorta was the reason for Mr. Wahl’s...


