An ascending aortic aneurysm occurs when the aortic wall becomes ... reaches greater than 5.5 cm in normal individuals, surgical repair is recommended. If the aneurysm is > 5.0 cm and there ...

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

Your aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The thoracoabdominal aorta starts after the curve of the cane and extends past the arteries that deliver blood to the stomach, ...

The aorta continues on down to the descending aorta that further supplies blood to the rest of your body. An ascending or aortic arch aneurysm refers to ballooning out of the aorta which causes aortic ...

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 ...

Ascending aortic dissections are a surgical emergency. Without surgery, mortality rates within 2 weeks approach 80%. The longer the delay to surgical repair, the higher the mortality. Medical ...

The Zenith TX2 TAA Endovascular stent graft is designed as a two-piece modular endograft system for thoracic aneurysm repair application ... for focal thoracic aortic lesions (see fig 8).

Aneurysms in the ascending aorta ... had surgery to replace or repair an aortic valve before age 70 have a parent, sibling, ...