Q: My neighbor suffered a ruptured aneurysm that almost killed her. According to her husband, this came out of the blue. What ...

The other pulmonary artery gets blood supply by a duct (isolated) or a collateral off the aorta. Type IV: Truncus associated to underdevelopment of the arch including coarctation or complete ...

In the subsequent year, despite receiving adequate anticoagulation therapy with rivaroxaban, rare events of descending aortic mural thrombus and bilateral renal infarction occurred. The patient was ...

Center for Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Soochow University, ...

NEW research suggests wearable acoustic cardiography (ACG) technology may provide an effective non-invasive method for diagnosing subclinical leaflet thrombosis (SLT) following transcatheter aortic ...

For the treatment of transcatheter aortic valve (TAV) thrombosis, both in its more common form of subclinical leaflet thrombosis (SLT) and the rarer clinical valve thrombosis (CVT), pharmacotherapy ...

Although clinically significant valve thrombosis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is rare, the incidence of subclinical leaflet thrombosis has ...

Aortic stenosis (AS) was historically considered a disease of ... myocardial performance index; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; RV, right ventricle, PA, pulmonary artery; PCWP, pulmonary capillary ...

Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) of the proximal thoracic aorta are derived from second heart field (SHF) and cardiac neural crest (CNC) lineages. Recent studies, both in vitro and in vivo, have implied ...

Although echocardiography is generally used as the initial imaging modality, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) is the test of choice in evaluation of aortic arch anomalies. cMRI allows ...