This is the latest (third) version of Guideline on Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortic Aneurysm and Aortic Dissection
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Aortic Aneurysm
September 5, 2023
August 24, 2023
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 of one million treatment episodes examining the relationship between fluoroquinolone use and aneurysm or dissection.
August 4, 2023
Joe Bavaria speaks on how the new STS and AATS endorsed aortic guidelines have informed risk assessment in treating thoracic aortic aneurysms, as well as how to interpret these guidelines in individual cases.
June 23, 2023
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 ascending aorta replacement (52 percent; hazard ratio, 1.38; 95 percent CI, 1.12-1.68) without resecting the coronary sinuses, and lower
April 13, 2023
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 aneurysms grew very slowly, and growth over 0.2 cm per year was rarely seen.
February 23, 2023
As part of this study, patients 75 years and older with acute type A aortic dissection from 2011 to 2020 were reviewed. The surgical outcomes of noncommunicating acute type A dissection in this group were favorable, with no significant difference in maintaining physical function at discharge.
January 6, 2023
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.
November 17, 2022
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 mass index (kg/m2), heart rate (bpm), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg), height (cm), weight (kg), and the presence or
November 3, 2022
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 Disease.
The top ten take-home messages are:
October 6, 2022
In conducting the largest study to date supporting the current medical consensus that recommends surgery only for patients with a thoracic aneurysm that is 5.5 centimeters or larger, the authors found that the overall risk for patients below that standard is low.