Abstract Pulmonary sequestration (PS) is a rare congenital malformation where extrapulmonary lung tissue receives systemic blood supply from an anomalous branch directly the thoracic or abdominal aorta. Whilst non-malignant, it can often present with similar symptoms as cancer. We retrospective review of 8 consecutive adult patients undergoing surgical management for PS within single centre in ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence and risk factors for reoperations on the pre-isthmic aorta after repair of type A acute aortic dissection. METHODS From January 1979 to December 1996, 178 patients (125 males and 53 females with a mean age of 57 +/- 9 years) underwent emergency surgery for acute type A aortic dissection with an overall operative mortality rate of 21%. One hundred and forty-...

BACKGROUND Great arteries in congenital heart disease (CHD) may dilate, become aneurysmal, or rupture. Little is known about medial abnormalities in these arterial walls. Accordingly, we studied 18 types of CHD in patients from neonates to older adults. METHODS AND RESULTS Intraoperative biopsies from ascending aorta, paracoarctation aorta, truncus arteriosus, and pulmonary trunk in 86 patien...

The Coral Reef Aorta is a rare phenomenon of extreme calcification in the juxtarenal and suprarenal aorta. The calcifications are often similar in appearance to growths of hyperplastic bone, though abnormalities in serum calcium are not found. [1] In contrast to the typical appearance of atherosclerosis of the great vessels, which follows the curve of the vessel wall, the calcifications of Cora...

INTRODUCTION A 59 year old woman presented with acute right leg ischemia. On the computed tomography scan, thrombi were seen in the brachiocephalic trunk, in the descending aorta, in the infrarenal aorta, in the right deep femoral artery, and in the right crural arteries. TECHNIQUE To remove the risk of cerebral emboli, thrombo-aspiration of the brachiocephalic trunk was planned, with associa...

rom the Departments of Internal Medicine III, Vascular Surgery, and Paediatric Cardiology, niversity of Cologne, ologne, Germany. anuscript received ay 4, 2009; ccepted May 12, 2009. A46-year-old man had poorly controlled arterial hypertension despite triple antihypertensive medication for years before by chance aortic coarctation was diagnosed. He was admitted to our institution for operation....

Application of endovascular method for type B aortic dissection treatment is valuable option compared with open surgery. Despite the lower rate, complications in the endovascular treatment remain important issue. One of them is collapse of the prosthesis. The aim of the study was to present case of stent-graft collapse after endovascular treatment due to aortic dissection and management of this...

reports have shown the antioxidant, hypotensive, hypolipidemic and vasodilatory effects of grape (vitis vinifera l.) seed extract. we have recently shown the relaxatory effect of grape leaf extract on rat uterus and reduction of frog heart rate and contractility. the aim of the present study was to investigate the relaxant effect of vitis vinifera leaf hydroalcoholic extract (vlhe) on rat thora...

Acute aortic dissection is one of the rare aortic complications that occur after orthotopic heart transplantation. We report the second case of successful surgical treatment of aortic dissection confined to the donor aorta in a recipient of an orthotopic cardiac allograft. A 68-year-old patient was admitted with chest pain and shortness of breath 7 years after orthotopic heart transplantation. ...