Medindia » News » Heart Disease News » Own Veins Less Vulnerable For Aortic Graft Re-infection . Own Veins Less Vulnerable For Aortic Graft Re-infection. by Trilok Kapur on Jan 2 2010 6:54 AM.

In a recent study published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery, Dr. Clagett and his team reported on 187 patients at UT Southwestern treated for aortic graft infections who underwent the NAIS ...

Thoracic infections were seen with the Tag device (n = 3; WL Gore) and the Talent thoracic endograft (n = 1). There were no significant differences among devices in terms of infection rates. Over ...

This type of infection happens in between 0.5% and 2% of surgeries for AAA. Antibiotics and surgery to replace or bypass the graft can treat it. Rarer complications after aortic aneurysm surgery ...

In 2012, a 76-year-old Connecticut doctor had surgery to repair a life-threatening bulge in his aortic arch—the hulking bend that hooks the massive artery around the heart, routing oxygenated ...

In all, 91% of patients survived to 1 month, with survival waning after 12 months (76%), 60 months (55%), and 120 months (41%). A total of 33 patients (27%) developed an infection-related complication ...

The analysis found: Participants who reported a previous COVID-19 infection were 9.7 times as likely to have rapid abdominal aortic aneurysm growth (higher growth than the average of 2.7 mm per year).

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