In the small percentage of patients undergoing TAVR who have a preexisting unruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), there appears to be increased risks of both aortic dissection and cardiac ...

OAKLAND, Calif. — A large, new Kaiser Permanente study provides high-quality evidence that most of the 33,000 patients diagnosed each year in the U.S. with a thoracic aortic aneurysm — a bulge in the ...

Patients who have an error in the gene known as LOX—shorthand for lysyl oxidase, the enzyme it encodes—are particularly prone to thoracic aortic aneurysm and ...

Thoracic aortic aneurysms represent a major health problem. Untreated thoracic aortic aneurysms may rupture, which has a dismal outcome. The standard treatment for thoracic aneurysms is open surgical ...

For patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), a higher total vascular score (TVS) based on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging at diagnosis is associated with a ...

Scientists at the Aortic Institute at Yale tested the genomes of more than 100 patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms, a potentially lethal condition, and provided genetically personalized care. They ...

Absolute risk for aortic dissection was low among a cohort of patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms as large as 6 cm, though larger size was associated with higher risk for aortic dissection and all ...

DEAR DR ROACH: My husband will be 83 in September and was recently diagnosed with an ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm measuring 4.8 cm. Five centimeters is when they do something. After hearing ...

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, ...

Madurai: A 50-year-old man from Pudukottai was treated for a rare and potentially fatal thoracic aortic aneurysm after he ...

Catheter-based techniques, with their theoretic advantages, have changed the trends of vascular surgery. The minimally invasive character of stent grafting, with the obvious avoidance of major surgery ...