Next, samples of the aorta were taken in two directions (circumferential and axial) from four anatomical regions: the ascending aorta, aortic arch, thoracic aorta, and abdominal aorta. Then, a ...

Objectives Differentiation between normal and abnormal ... Morphometric measurements, including measurements of segmental length and tortuosity, were performed on three-dimensional models of the ...

Statistical analysis of measurement of aortic length ... aortitis produce elongation of the aorta. Aortic length varies widely among normal individuals but is roughly ten times the caliber of the ...

an 8- to 10-F sheath (according to the size of chimney graft) was placed in the exposed left brachial artery, and then a Lunderquist extra-stiff guidewire (William Cook Europe, Bjaeverskov, Denmark) ...

The primary endpoint was the change in estimated annual aortic growth at five predefined levels in the thoracic aorta after 1 year of resveratrol ... (from 0.39±0.06 to −0.13±0.23, p=0.072), ascending ...

Conclusions Normal vital signs ... with a final diagnosis of thoracic aortic injury resulting from blunt trauma. Studies were included if they described the proportion of patients in a stable/unstable ...

The patient also had classic manifestations of tertiary syphilis: fusiform aneurysm of the aorta and meningovascular syphilis. He underwent bi-valvular and ascending aorta replacement ... Prompted by ...

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

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.

Full IDE Data Set Demonstrates Sustained Benefit at One Year with Use of AMDS in Acute DeBakey Type I (ADTI) Dissections Complicated by Malperfusion Data from the trial demonstrate sustained ...