Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition with complex immunological underpinnings. This article explored the causal relationships among immune cells, inflammatory proteins, and aortic ...

Acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) is a life-threatening condition that requires emergency surgery to avert fatal outcome. Conventional surgical procedures comprise excision of the entry tear and ...

Both Adair's father and sister survived, but after her sister's aortic dissection at the age of 49, Adair was determined to learn why it had happened. She, her father and her sister were diagnosed ...

Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, China. (Y.E.L., S.L., Litao Wang, Y.D., L. Wu, H.C., T ...

Of those, 25 (5.2%) underwent CT angiography (CTA) within 2 years before dissection onset. Aortic diameter, length and volume of these patients (‘pre-ATAAD’) were compared with those of TAA controls ...

6 China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Guang 'anmen Hospital Baoding Hospital, Baoding, China 7 Jixi Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Jixi, China Objectives Acute type A aortic ...

In asymptomatic patients with mild to moderate aortic stenosis, the survival is similar to age-matched controls. [1,16] The mainstay of medical treatment for these patients is simply appropriate ...

2015). Despite no clinical data, use of sympathomimetic drugs in those with moderate-severe CAAs should be cautious. Aortic diameter above 3.5 cm is considered to be dilated in adults, but in children ...

Patients with severe aortic stenosis may remain asymptomatic despite high pressure gradients. This often represents a gradual adaptation by patients with progressively increasing limitations in ...