Aung Oo of the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital delivers a talk on decision-making in thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair.
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Aorta
October 8, 2015
In an interview filmed at the 2015 SCTS Annual Meeting, Mohamad Bashir talks with Dianna Milewicz about her research into the genetics behind aneurysms. Dr. Milewicz is the Director of the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas.
October 7, 2015
Davide Pacini of the S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy, poses the question: should the aortic arch be replaced during acute type A dissection repair?
October 6, 2015
This video demonstrates a Florida sleeve valve-sparing aortic root repair, repair of the leaking bicuspid valve with raphe shaving, virtual basal ring annuloplasty and leaflet plication, and ascending through proximal arch replacement with alternate aortic cannulation/clamping.
October 5, 2015
This videos shows an open filter retrieval and open aortic repair for a chronic aortoiliac dissection secondary to aortic inferior vena cava filter penetration.
September 17, 2015
Authors report on visceral malperfusion in a series of 121 patients with acute type A aortic dissection. They postulate that in case of severe visceral ischaemia, abdominal surgery should be performed first to avoid irreversible ischaemic damage caused by circulatory arrest required for aortic repair.
Comparative Histology of Aortic Dilatation Associated With Bileaflet Versus Trileaflet Aortic Valves
September 9, 2015
Resected aortas associated with a bicuspid aortic valve (BAV,n = 60) and trileaflet aortic valve (n = 24) in patients with aortic valve disease were compared with normal diameter aortas from patients undergoing cardiac transplantation (n = 16) by five histologic criteria.
September 4, 2015
Long-term outcomes of endovascular (EVAR) and open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) were compared using a California-based dataset including more than 23,000 pts.
August 27, 2015
Duke Cameron of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, discusses the surgical management of the aortic root in acute aortic dissection.
August 19, 2015
Olaf Wendler of King’s College Hospital, London, UK, discusses the surgical treatment of aortic infections, including aortic root endocarditis and mycotic aortic aneurysm.