Transesophageal echocardiography and MRI can be useful as well. Ascending aortic dissections are a surgical emergency. Without surgery, mortality rates within 2 weeks approach 80%. The longer the ...

The diagnosis of an ascending aortic aneurysm is best made on CT angiography or MR angiography. Echocardiography can visualized the proximal portion of the aorta, however not the aortic arch and ...

Intraoperative echocardiography has been used during ... of postoperative dissection was 27% among AVR patients if the ascending aorta was at least 5 cm in diameter, but only 0.6% if the aorta ...

Your aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The ascending aorta forms the beginning or handle of the cane and originates at the aortic valve. The ascending aorta includes the ...

Aneurysms in the ascending aorta (the section closest to the heart ... A heart ultrasound (echocardiogram) or CT scan can be ...

1–4 The present case represents a notable exception in that an aneurysm of the ascending aorta resulted from a nonspecific giant-cell aortitis. A.L. (M.G.H. 1283255), a 30-year-old Negro mother ...

Cultures confirmed the presence of MRSA. A postoperative echocardiogram demonstrated vegetations on the aortic valve and revealed a mild degree of aortic insufficiency (fig3). Intravenous ...