Remarkable progress has become especially apparent in aortic medicine in the last few
decades, leading to essential changes in how thoracic aortic dissection is understood and …

Over the past decade, minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery (MICS) has grown in
popularity. This growth has been driven, in part, by a desire to translate many of the …

Objectives Standard treatment of ascending aortic pathology is open repair, but some
patients are too high risk. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) of the ascending …

Background Acute type A aortic dissection is a surgical emergency, with an operative
mortality as high as 25%. Ischemia is a known predictor of mortality. We tested the efficacy of …

Objective Endovascular repair of the ascending aorta is currently limited to patients at high
surgical risk with aortic diseases originating above the sinotubular junction. A number of …

Objectives: This paper sought to report the outcomes of patients who are considered unfit for
urgent surgical repair of ascending aortic dissections (AADs) who were treated using a …

Objective Conventional open surgery encompassing cardiopulmonary bypass has been
traditionally used for the treatment of ascending aorta diseases. However, more than one in …

OBJECTIVES The objectives are to (i) report characteristics and outcomes of patients with
inoperable acute type A aortic dissection,(ii) describe proximal aortic morphology and (iii) …

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Purpose Up to 10% of acute type A aortic dissection (TAAD) patients are deemed unfit for
open surgical repair, exposing these patients to high mortality rates. In recent years, thoracic …