Life Expectancy of Survivors of Type A Aortic Dissection: A Comparison with the General Population Over a Period of 40 Yearsdoi:10.1055/s-0039-1678944Boehm, J.Burri, M.Herold, U.Lange, R.Krane, M.Georg Thieme Verlag KGThe Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon...
The life expectancy in this syndrome has increased to greater than 25% since 1972. People who are accurately diagnosed, adopt proper lifestyles and receive appropriate medical and surgical management may live a normal life span (into their 70s).However, there are no guarantees. Having Marfan syndr...
True story: A 40-year husband of a stay-at-home mother, and father of two children under two years old, died unexpectedly of an aortic dissection; his stated plan for his family’s income continuation was an oral agreement among his best friends that if anything happened to anyone of them...
After the hemoglobin delivers the oxygen into the tissues, it collects carbon dioxide, the waste product of metabolism. The carbon dioxide-laden blood then returns through veins back to the heart. The heart pumps this blood through the pulmonary arteries back to the lung. There, the carbon diox...
Patients with limited life expectancy or ambulation due to a condition other than peripheral artery disease also were excluded. Randomization Eligible patients were assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either endovascular revascularization plus supervised exercise or supervised exercise only. Randomization and ...
, completed, withdrawn clinical studies related to the use of NLRP3 as a marker and a major player in lifestyle-associated noncommunicable diseases are listed in Table1. Consequently, drug therapies targeting NLRP3 hold immense potential for enhancing overall health and extending life expectancy31....
Pyeritz RE (2009) Marfan syndrome: 30 years of research equals 30 years of additional life expectancy. Heart 95:173–175 Pyeritz RE, Loeys B (2012) The 8th international research symposium on the Marfan syndrome and related conditions. Am J Med Genet A 158A:42–49 ...
- Long-term survival and risk of reoperation in "non-Marfan syndrome" patients with a long life expectancy who undergo emergency surgery for acute type A aortic dissection (aTAAD) are not well known.Piccardo, AlessandroRegesta, TommasoLe Guyader, AlexandreDi Lorenzo, NicolaBertin, FrancoisPeste...
doi:10.1016/j.acvd.2016.05.007Alessandro PiccardoTommaso RegestaAlexandre Le GuyaderNicola Di LorenzoFranois BertinFrancis PesteilElisabeth CornuArch Cardiovasc Dis
ascending aortic aneurysm; ascending aortic replacement; life expectancy1. Introduction After atherosclerosis, the aneurysm is the second most frequent disease of the aorta [1]. The current incidence of thoracic aortic aneurysm is approximately 8 in 100,000 patients per year [2]. Several ...