In the small percentage of patients undergoing TAVR who have a preexisting unruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), there appears to be increased risks of both aortic dissection and cardiac ...

Given the growing proportion of elderly people in Western societies and the increasing prevalence of chronic hypertension, the management of aneurysmal aortic disease is an ever growing challenge.

Patients who have an error in the gene known as LOX—shorthand for lysyl oxidase, the enzyme it encodes—are particularly prone to thoracic aortic aneurysm and ...

In performing open arch replacement, surgeons at our center and others currently prefer to reattach the individual brachiocephalic branches separately, rather than reattaching a single island of ...

Background A 40-year-old man presented with acute chest and back pain, hypertension and anuria. Two years previously he had been diagnosed with acute uncomplicated type B aortic dissection. Following ...

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 ...

The research team including Dr. Ying Shen, professor of surgery and director of the Aortic Disease Research Lab; Dr. Scott LeMaire, professor of and vice chair for research in the Department of ...

What Is an Aortic Dissection? An aortic dissection is an emergency with your aorta, which is the largest blood vessel in your body and the main artery that takes blood from your heart to the rest of ...

Thoracic aneurysm open surgery is a treatment for a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a bulge in your aorta. The aorta, your body’s largest blood vessel, begins at your heart and extends into your ...

It often starts with sudden, sharp chest pain that feels unlike anything you have experienced before. It might spread to your back or seem to ease off, but it’s not something to brush aside. Aortic ...

The aorta is the main artery of the human body. Its large structure is key to maintaining the vital function of pumping oxygenated blood around the whole body. Aortic ...

An aortic dissection happens when tears appear in the inner lining of the aorta, which is the main artery leaving the heart. Blood surges into the tears, causing the aorta lining to split, or dissect.