Background A 40-year-old man presented with acute chest and back pain, hypertension and anuria. Two years previously he had been diagnosed with acute uncomplicated type B aortic dissection.

with pathologies of the descending thoracic aorta. [29] The 30-day mortality rate was 5% in the stent graft group compared with 27% in the open surgery group. Ehrlich and colleagues reported a ...

Type B dissection involves a tear in the aorta beyond the arch, usually in the descending thoracic aorta. Dissections can be acute or chronic. 2.4 Insertion of aortic remodelling hybrid stent is ...

The device is a 1-piece polyester fabric tube which combines a conventional vascular graft attached to an endovascular stent graft that allows treatment of the ascending aorta at the same time as the ...

Doha, 23 April 2012: Hamad General Hospital (HGH) - a member of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) - has successfully conducted the very first procedure performed in Qatar using balloon-expandable stents ...

Stent grafts generally have been designed ... studies comparing open and endovascular treatment of descending thoracic-aortic disease." Most of the studies of thoracic-aortic disease treatment ...

GORE ® Ascending Stent Graft, an investigational device ... in treating lesions of the aortic arch and descending thoracic aorta. The new purpose-built GORE Ascending Stent Graft will be used ...

The patient was immediately transferred to a vascular surgery department, where a stent-graft (Tbranch, Cook Medical, Limerick, Ireland) was implanted to the descending aorta without further ...

4 The descending aorta is fixed to the chest wall ... The position is identified on angiography and the stent graft deployed across the injured aorta, excluding it from the circulation (Figure ...

Or, if it’s in the descending aorta and greater than 6.0 cm (2.4 in) across. In a large study, researchers found the risk of aortic dissection was 0.22 per 100 people per year, with a bigger ...