The authors present an urgent total descending aorta replacement, esophagectomy, stent graft removal, esophagostomy, and gastrostomy to treat an aortoesophageal fistula.
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Aorta
July 3, 2018
July 2, 2018
Yoshioka and colleagues evaluated the artery of Adamkiewicz using multidetector row computed tomography in 64 patients. These patients had descending thoracic or thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms that were associated with the occlusion of the segmental artery from which the artery of Adamkiewicz originated.
June 29, 2018
Patient Care and General Interest
June 26, 2018
The authors provide a step-by-step description of a two-stage repair of a DeBakey type I aortic dissection using the elephant trunk technique.
June 21, 2018
Park and Kim describe the construction and use of semimanufactured eight-branched aortic graft for open repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm. The authors review the results of open repair using this graft in 12 patients, eight of whom had Marfan syndrome.
June 13, 2018
Size-based parameters have both value and limitations in predicting the risk of aortopathy in patients with bicuspid aortic valves. Given the limitations of these morphological predictive tools, Naito and colleagues review the potential of biomarkers to assess aortic disease in these patients.
June 1, 2018
Kim and colleagues retrospectively analyzed long-term patency of reimplanted branch vessels following thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair in 168 patients. Patency rates were high for visceral branches. For segmental arteries, patency rates depended on reimplantation technique and were worst for graft interpositions.
May 31, 2018
Filmed at the 2017 Aortic Live meeting in Essen, Germany, Mohamad Bashir, Joseph Bavaria, Heinz Jakob, Tilo Kolbel, Gebrine El Khoury, and Stephan Haulon discuss endovascular approaches to aortic disease.
May 15, 2018
The authors present a valve sparing aortic root replacement using a ministernotomy in a 35-year-old woman with Marfan syndrome.
May 15, 2018
A sober editorial on a murine model of induced cardiac failure, which highlights the challenges of translating animal omics to humans