Debra Reals still remembers lying on a gurney with her father and sister at her side as trauma surgeons explained the ...

Internal diameters of the distal transverse aortic arch (distal to left carotid artery) and descending aorta (at the level of the diaphragm) were measured and this ratio was chosen to express the ...

The aortic arch was defined as the segment that comprised the three ... Luminal diameters were measured using the inner edge to inner edge approach at different levels of the aorta (STJ, halfway the ...

They found that CFPWV was significantly lower with increasing levels of high frequency power ... As such, Guo et al 39 assessed aortic calcification via chest computed tomography from aortic arch to ...

As a result, partial aortic dissection artificial vascular replacement and partial aortic arch artificial vascular replacement ... and the N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide level was 324.5 ...

The aorta starts at the heart’s left ventricle, curves into the aortic arch, and stretches all the way down from the chest into the abdomen. The abdominal aorta begins after the aorta passes through a ...

Recent research from Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences (KL Krems) provides important new insights into how ...

The first branch is the right carotid and does not classify as a RAA branching pattern; one may be fooled into believing this is a left aortic arch with the first branch coursing rightward (see ...

In patients with acute type A aortic dissection, receiving surgical repair at a high-volume aortic center is associated with improved survival.

A study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego sheds new light on how a type of heart valve disease, called aortic valve stenosis, progresses differently in males and females.