Type A aortic dissection is usually treated with standard surgery, requiring cardiopulmonary bypass and sometimes deep hypothermia. Besides the well-established procedure, mortality and complications are considerable. Using the knowledge and lessons learned from the endovascular treatment of descending aortic diseases, emerging reports describe new approaches to the condition, using endovascula...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease associated with the production of various autoantibodies and involvement of multiple organs. Necropsy findings in a 65 year old woman with SLE who had multiple aortic aneurysms and dissections, as well as other unusual manifestations, are described. The case illustrates the occurrence of and the difficulties encounter...

Background Aortic enlargement and impaired bioelasticity is a focus of interest in several cardiac and non-cardiac diseases as it can lead to severe cardiovascular complications. Assessment of aortic anatomy and bioelasticity, namely aortic distensibility and pulse wave velocity (PWV), by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is accurate and reproducible and can help to identify anato...

Aortic aneurysms are life-threatening vascular diseases associated with high morbidity, and usually require prophylactic surgical intervention. Current preventative management of aortic relies on the diameter other anatomic parameters aorta, but these have been demonstrated to be insufficient predictive factors disease progression potential complications. Studies pathophysiology could fill this...

INTRODUCTION We analyzed the short-term efficacy of endovascular treatment for aortic diseases by summarizing all available published data on endovascular stent-graft treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), type A aortic dissection (type A AD) and type B aortic dissection (type B AD) in China. METHODS We performed a systematic analysis of 935 published s...

Thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAAs) present a major group of diseases of cardiovascular pathology affecting 5.9:100,000 worldwide [1]. Aortic aneurysms develop asymptomatically until occurs aortic rupture or dissection often cause of morbidity. The main risk factors for TAA formation still remain the same for all cardiovascular pathology, including hypertension, atherosclerosis, age, gender and ev...