State-of-the-art of hybrid procedures for the aortic arch: A meta-analysis 2010, Annals of Thoracic Surgery Citation Excerpt : There were 60.8% of patients who were operated on electively (Table 1). Based mainly on sample size criteria (ie, studies with equal or more than 11 patients),...
Definitive granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) diagnosis lies on fulfilling three out of six following criteria: compatible histopathology with granulomatosis inflammation within the wall of an artery or in the perivascular region, oral or nasal chronic involvement, laryngo-tracheobronchial stenosis, radi...
Download: Download full-size image Fig 4. Forest plot shows paraplegia/paraparesis in thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR) vs open repair of traumatic descending aortic rupture. Discussion The results of this meta-analysis indicate that mortality and the risk of paraplegia is significantly lowe...
Seventy-five genetically-confirmed Marfan syndrome patients were prospectively recruited from our Aortic Unit. Inclusion criteria were: age > 18 years and absence of bicuspid aortic valve, significant valve dysfunction (<grade III aortic regurgitation and stenosis) and previous heart or aortic sur...
thoracic aortic aneurysmdescending thoracic aortathoracoabdominal aortanatural historyaortic dissectionaortic ruptureintervention criteriaObjectives: Elucidating critical aortic diameters at which natural complications (rupture, dissection, and death) occur is of paramount importance to guide timely surgical ...
The use of left heart bypass in the repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: current techniques and results Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 15 (2003), pp. 326-332 Google Scholar 41 A. Kulik, C.F. Castner, N.T. Kouchoukos Outcomes after thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair with hypo...
Technical, functional, and clinical outcomes were defined according to the published criteria for endovascular aortic aneurysm repair.14 Results are given as median (standard deviation [SD] or range) for quantitative variables and as count and percentage for categorical data. Left vertebral artery diame...