Ascending Aorta

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Supra-Annular Perceval Bentall: From Concept to Patient

September 17, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

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 deploying the Perceval XL into...

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Supra-Annular Perceval Bentall: From Concept to Patient

September 17, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

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...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 169: CSIA Conference and Global Cardiothoracic Surgery

August 13, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

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,...

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Association Between Surgical Timing and Postoperative Outcomes in Type A Acute Aortic Dissection

May 7, 2026 | Mujtaba MubashirGold Contributor

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...

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Surgery Versus Surveillance: A Quality-of-Life Analysis of Patients With Moderately Dilated Aortic Root or Ascending Aorta

November 20, 2025 | EACTS StaffSilver Contributor

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...

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Updated JCS/JSCVS/JATS/JSVS 2020 Guideline on Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortic Aneurysm and Aortic Dissection

September 5, 2023 | Wei-Guo Ma

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,...

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Association Between Fluoroquinolone Use and Hospitalization with Aortic Aneurysm or Aortic Dissection

August 24, 2023 | Malak Elbatarny

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...

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The Aortic Root in Acute Type A Dissection: Repair or Replace?

June 23, 2023 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

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...

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Fate of the Unoperated Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: Three-Decade Experience from the Aortic Institute at Yale University

April 13, 2023 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

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...

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Mid-Term Outcomes of a Hybrid Approach Involving Open Surgery Plus TEVAR of the Descending Aorta in the Treatment of Complex Type A Dissection

January 6, 2023 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

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...

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Grant Wahl Died of a Burst Blood Vessel, His Family Says

December 14, 2022 | Wei-Guo Ma

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...

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Development of a Prediction Model for Ascending Aortic Diameter Among Asymptomatic Individuals

November 17, 2022 | Wei-Guo Ma

Pirruccello and associates from Massachusetts General Hospital developed a prediction model for ascending aortic diameter in a cohort of 30,018 asymptomatic individuals based on eleven variables: age (years), gender, body...

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2022 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic Disease: A Report of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

November 3, 2022 | Wei-Guo Ma

On November 2, 2022, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) published an update to the 2010 ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic...

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