Chronic thoracic aortic aneurysm (CTAA) is defined by dilation of the thoracic aorta to beyond ... His research demonstrated that aneurysm size (when indexed to the patient's size) is proportional to ...

Global life expectancy is rising, and people are becoming increasingly sedentary, due to which the risk of developing aneurysms is also increasing, leading to the huge demand for aortic stent grafts.

Forty-three AS participants had the aortic mean gradient measured both in T5 and T6. Five underwent surgery during the follow-up period, leaving 38 subjects for repeated measurement analysis. As ...

Shafi Mohamed as director of cardiothoracic surgery at St. Luke’s Health Memorial. Mohamed, a triple board-certified cardiovascular, thoracic and vascular surgeon, brings a distinguished career marked ...

Previous studies of adult mammalian thoracic aortas revealed that tension per medial lamellar unit was independent of species and that distribution of medial vasa vasorum, number of medial lamellar ...

This week in Italy, two prospects helped their draft stock with strong measurements in Treviso. Serbia's Bogoljub Marković checked in at 6-foot-10 and half an inch without shoes, weighing 213 ...

In this cross-sectional study of 158 patients with TAD, several blood biomarkers were found to be associated with the size of the thoracic aorta. The significantly associated blood biomarkers were ...

A noteworthy case study. How to help a teenage girl with familial hypercholesterolemia who has chest pains and is increasingly short of breath? That's what Muhammad Liaquat Raza, PhD, of Al Fatima ...

the aortic isthmus, and the thoracic descending and abdominal aorta. The aorta as an organ can be regarded as a biological “windkessel”, storing kinetic energy during systole which is delivered during ...

Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) is a common treatment for Stanford type B aortic dissection ... More accurate simulations are highly dependent on accurate model establishment and material ...

Background Increasing demand for transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) places greater emphasis on the efficiency of pathways and services. A significant limitation to increasing TAVI capacity ...