Acute aortic dissection remains a challenging clinical emergency with a high mortality rate. The peak incidence of aortic dissection is in the sixth and seventh decade of life; men are affected twice as commonly as women. Two classification systems predominate, the DeBakey and the Stanford ...
Acute aortic dissection remains a challenging clinical emergency with a high mortality rate. The peak incidence of aortic dissection is in the sixth and seventh decade of life; men are affected twice as commonly as women. Two classification systems predominate, the DeBakey and the Stanford classific...
Atheroma of the aortic arch: an important and poorly recognised factor in the aetiology of stroke. Atrial fibrillation and severe carotid-artery stenosis are well-characterised risk factors for stroke; each is present in about a fifth of patients. The id... MR Macleod,P Amarenco,SM Davis,....
The clustering of different types of B-cell malignancies in families raises the possibility of shared aetiology. To examine this, we performed cross-trait linkage disequilibrium (LD)-score regression of multiple myeloma (MM) and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) genome-wide association study (GWAS)...
The most frequent aetiologies were aortic dissection (6 cases), atherosclerosis demonstrated by vascular imaging (6 cases), fibrocartilaginous embolism (6 cases), surgery (5 cases), and hypotension (4 cases). Aetiology was undetermined in 12 patients (29.3%), although 9 of these presented ...
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) disease is a chronic degenerative disorder and is an important cause of preventable deaths in older patients. Prevalence rates are estimated between 1.3 and 8.9% in men and between 1.0 and 2.2% in women. However, with the aging of the population and the ...
Rupture of the inferior vena cava during dissection of the heart from adhesions from a previous operation for mitral disease or congenital palliative surgery is a serious and sometimes fatal complication. Its treatment is a challenge even to the most experienced heart surgeon. In two of our three...
Three cases are presented to illustrate the features of such cases due to aortic dissection, bronchial carcinoma and tuberculosis. Cases should be suspected if there has been a history of midthoracic pain or dysphagia, a 'herald' haemorrhage and then massive fatal haematemesis with bright red ...
In addition, in a minority of cases, vasospasm, internal carotid artery dissection [16] and systemic hypotension have also been suspected to be responsible for RAOs [1], and Hayreh et al. found a patent foramen ovale in 2% of their CRAO patients [10]. In a study by Chen et al., ...