A beveled aortic hemiarch replacement is a surgical procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection in the ascending aorta and arch of the aorta. This procedure involves removing the ...

First performed at University Hospital in August 2024 on a now 51-year-old patient named Angela, who asked to be identified ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Following the U.S. Food and Drug approval of the Thoraflex Hybrid frozen truck elephant device, MUSC has announced that it was the first medical center in the Southeast to ...

In performing open arch replacement, surgeons at our center and others currently prefer to reattach the individual brachiocephalic branches separately, rather than reattaching a single island of ...

With approximately 35 million people affected by aortic conditions globally medical science has introduced a minimally invasive treatment known as TEVAR Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair ...

Surgeons in Zambia completed the country’s first total aortic arch replacement – guided by a team from University of Michigan Health. The six-person surgical team traveled from Ann Arbor to Africa in ...

When an aneurysm occurs in the chest (above your diaphragm) it's called a thoracic aortic aneurysm. Thoracic aortic aneurysms are classified based on which part of the aorta is abnormal: While your ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2012;10(12):1497-1516. Type I: A short pulmonary trunk originating from the TA gives rise to both ­pulmonary arteries. Type II: The pulmonary arteries off the truncus with ...

Background Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) has good modern results, but large multicentre longitudinal data on outcomes, especially hospital resource utilisation through childhood and adolescence, are ...