Background Socioeconomic deprivation has been associated with adverse outcomes after aortic surgery, although evidence ...

Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This “false lumen” can ...

In patients with ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and no other organ-system abnormalities, the absolute risk of aortic dissection is low but increases with larger aortic sizes, according to ...

AORTIC dissection is a rare but serious heart condition that tends to affect people in their 50s and 60s. Here we outline all the key details that you need to know ...

For emergency doctors, the fear of missing a potentially lethal diagnosis “fluctuates between healthy and practice-altering paranoia,” Calgary emergency doctors Eddy Lang and Niklas Bobrovitz recently ...

Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) groups together several severe, aortic, life-threatening conditions, which include acute aortic dissection, intramural haematoma (IMH), and penetrating aortic ulcer (PAU) ...

It has been reported that approximately 14.2–15.7% of aortic dissections are accompanied by descending aortic aneurysms, whereas approximately 1.6–4.9% of descending aortic aneurysms coexist with ...

In 44 patients with suspected dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, an aortographic diagnosis of dissection, based on the demonstration of a narrowed true lumen and of a false channel, was made in 23.