The FET procedure involves placing a hybrid graft, a combination of a surgical graft and a stent graft, resembling an ...

Kolkata: A rare cardiac surgery at a private hospital saved the life of a 72-year-old man who had an ‘aortic bulge'—a ...

A noteworthy case study. How to help a teenage girl with familial hypercholesterolemia who has chest pains and is ...

Advances in interventional cardiology revolutionised treatment of aortic coarctation: balloon dilatation with or without deployment of a stent has gained popularity and has become the ... during ...

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 ...

Objective To review comparisons of the effectiveness of endovascular stent grafting (ESG) against open surgical repair (OSR) for treatment of chronic arch or descending thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) ...

Background: To establish models for predicting descending thoracic aortic diameters and provide evidence for selecting the size of the stent graft for TBAD patients. Methods: A total of 200 candidates ...

Modeling approaches specific to endovascular stenting for aortic dissection have been reported. We created a goat model of descending thoracic aortic dissection and reproduced its morphological ...

The constricted segment of descending aorta was dilated up to 16 mm, which was detected by the chest CTA 3 days ... a group of cardiac surgeons performed balloon angioplasty combined with endovascular ...