BACKGROUND D-dimer has been reported to be elevated in acute aortic dissection. Potential use as a "rule-out" marker has been suggested, but concerns remain given that it is elevated in other acute chest diseases, including pulmonary embolism and ischemic heart disease. We evaluated the diagnostic performance of D-dimer testing in a study population of patients with suspected aortic dissection....

We studied 986 patients who underwent follow-up angiography after successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) to determine the influence of uncomplicated intimal dissection on restenosis rate. Angiographic evidence of intimal dissection after PTCA was present in 248 patients or 25%. After a mean follow-up time of 7 +/- 5 months (SD) the restenosis rate in patients without i...

Monsky’s celebrated equidissection theorem follows from his more general proof of the existence a polynomial relation f among areas triangles in dissection unit square. More recently, authors studied different p, also such dissection, that is invariant under certain deformations dissection. In this paper we study relationship between these two polynomials. We first generalize notion allowing wh...

RATIONALE Mutations in fibrillin-1 are associated with thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) in Marfan syndrome. Genome-wide association studies also implicate fibrillin-1 in sporadic TAA. Fragmentation of the aortic elastic lamellae is characteristic of TAA. OBJECTIVE Immunoassays were generated to test whether circulating fragments of fibrillin-1, or other microfibril fragments, are associated wit...

OBJECTIVES To determine the necessity of pelvic lymph node dissection for low-risk prostate cancer, we analyzed the incidence of lymph node invasion and the therapeutic value of pelvic lymph node dissection in low-risk prostate cancer patients. METHODS Medical records for 1268 patients undergoing open radical prostatectomy between January 2000 and December 2009 who had not undergone neoadjuva...

Direct true lumen cannulation through aortic incision for cardiopulmonary bypass during surgery acute Stanford type A dissection was reported by Jacob, followed Conzelmann who used a Mersilene tourniquet to snag the ascending aorta. Since 2013, Samurai cannulation, modified version of direct has been in at Kitasato University Hospital. Here, this surgical technique is described. Central Message...

BACKGROUND A timely diagnosis of aortic dissection is associated with lower mortality. The use of emergent bedside ultrasound has been described to diagnose aortic dissection. However, there is limited literature regarding the use of bedside ultrasound to identify superior mesenteric artery dissection, a known high-risk feature of aortic dissection. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to present a case of ...

design fixation has been found to be complex in its definition and expression, but it plays an important role in design idea generation. Identifying the factors that influence fixation is crucial in understanding how to enhance the design process and reduce the negative effects of fixation. One way to potentially mitigate fixation is through product dissection activities since this activity has...

Acute aortic dissection is a rare but devastating condition with high mortality. Unfortunately, there is no sensitive screening indicator of disease in common use. The objective of this study was to assess the sensitivity and utility of the serum D-dimer as a test for acute aortic dissection. A pooled analysis was performed of all original research studies testing the sensitivity of serum D-dim...

PURPOSE Gastric mucosal neoplastic lesions should have characteristic endoscopic features for successful endoscopic submucosal dissection. MATERIALS AND METHODS Out of the 1,010 endoscopic submucosal dissection, we enrolled 62 patients that had the procedure cancelled. Retrospectively, whether the reasons for cancelling the endoscopic submucosal dissection were consistent with the indications...