It will take you approximately two to three months to fully recover from undergoing ascending aortic aneurysm/dissection or arch surgery. You should plan to be away from work, getting your full ...

Recognizing that the behavior of the Marfan aorta is unpredictable, it is now common for specialists to recommend surgery when the ascending aorta or root measures 4.5 cm (or even 4.0 cm in cases ...

Ascending aortic dissections are a surgical emergency. Without surgery, mortality rates within 2 weeks approach 80%. The longer the delay to surgical repair, the higher the mortality. Medical ...

Young patients who have undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease have shown excellent long-term survival, the ...

He slit open the 70-year-old duke’s belly and cut down to the aorta, the body’s main artery ... In 67 min. of delicate surgery, Dr. DeBakey cut out the aneurysm and replaced it with a length ...

Young patients who have undergone the Ross procedure for aortic valve disease have shown excellent long-term survival, the ...

5 Then the ascending aortic aneurysm was removed and replaced by ... From the departments of Surgery and Pathology, Harvard Medical School, and the General Surgical Services and the James Homer ...

In a multicenter, retrospective review of patients admitted with intact and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), ...

Your surgeon will choose the best method for imaging your aorta. During this operation, the surgeon will make an incision, called a median sternotomy, in your chest and through the breastbone. In ...