A dense but short and readable editorial arguing for the complexity of risk stratification of aortic pathology.
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Aortic Arch
November 14, 2017
The authors present a successful surgical treatment in a 14-year-old girl with Loeys-Dietz syndrome; a redo aortic arch and ascending aorta replacement with a valve-sparing operation was performed.
August 17, 2017
The Yale group retrospectively reviewed their experience with DeBakey type I aortic dissections to evaluate whether patients with bovine aortic arches had a unique distribution of entry sites and differential outcomes. A total of 315 patients were included in the study, of which 49 (16%) had a bovine aortic arch.
June 22, 2017
Hiraoka and colleagues compared outcomes of 337 patients receiving conventional total aortic arch repair to 58 patients receiving hybrid aortic arch repair at a single cardiovascular institution. The authors observed no differences in operative or 30-day death.
March 29, 2017
A succinct editorial advancing the case for aortic super-centres
September 27, 2016
The Duke group analyzed their group of patients undergoing proximal aortic operations during a 9-year period (n=869) to determine the incidence and etiology of reintervention on the aorta during follow-up.
June 29, 2016
Joe Bavaria, current President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Vice Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delivers an informative talk on hybrid approaches to aortic arch aneurysm repair.
June 4, 2016
Outcomes are reported for initial use of a 4-branched graft with an incorporated distal stent graft for management of disease of the aortic arch combined with the proximal descending aorta. Operations were equally distributed among acute dissections, chronic dissections, and aneurysms. Surgical mortality was 7%, 3-year survival was 81%, and 22% nee
May 18, 2016
Jorge Mascaro of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, discusses the significant challenge of aortic arch replacement and the various approaches a surgeon can take, giving special attention to the Birmingham approach.
March 18, 2016
Not only an authoritative 16 year retrospective report on 957 planned aortic aneurysm surgeries from Cleveland Clinic, but a stimulating critique ( pages 771-774) with Tyrone David who was the invited discussant of the manuscript at its presentation at the AATS last April.