A hospital trust has apologised after failing to properly diagnose a “happily married” woman who was “living life to the full” when she collapsed.

ANEURYSMS of the coronary arteries are decidedly uncommon. They comprise congenital, mycoticembolic, syphilitic, polyarteritis-nodosa, arteriosclerotic and dissecting types. Of these, arteriosclero ...

Aortic dissections and aneurysms remain clinically challenging entities. Over the past several years, concepts in the management of thoracic aortic disease have slowly evolved and incrementally ...

Aortic dissection has long been considered a rare, unpreventable and inevitably fatal disease. However, recent advances now prove otherwise. The patient-led Think Aorta campaign is challenging old ...

Table 1 depicts preoperative data regarding the patients with or without HSK. The mean age of the patients with HSK was 67.29 ± 2.43 years. Although preoperative serum creatinine levels were ...

Letter Published: 10 June 1967 Natural Dissecting Aneurysm (Aortic Rupture) and Blood Pressure in the Turkey L. M. KRISTA, P. E. WAIBEL, R. N. SHOFFNER & J. H. SAUTTER Nature 214, 1162–1163 ...

Objective— Recent studies suggested the occurrence of phenotypic switching of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) during the development of aortic aneurysm (AA). However, lineage-tracing studies are ...

Aortic dissection (AD) is an uncommon condition that occurs mainly in the older patient population (>40 years). It is rare in younger people and is usually associated with trauma, Marfan’s syndrome, ...

Introduction Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a relatively rare but much-feared clinical presentation which has a high mortality, particularly if definitive treatment is delayed. A combination of ...

Abstract Introduction: Aortic aneurysm is the most life-threatening complication in Marfan syndrome (MFS), a connective tissue disorder caused by mutations in fibrillin-1 gene. We have previously ...

Girls and women with Turner syndrome are at risk for catastrophic aortic dissection and rupture, but the clinical profile for those at risk is not well described. In addition to reporting two new ...

Citation Hsu CC-T, Kwan GNC, van Driel ML, Rophael JA. Distal aortic perfusion during thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair for prevention of paraplegia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2022, Issue ...