Acute type B dissection is a catastrophic condition. Up to 20% of these patients develop severe complications such as rupture or branch vessel malperfusion. These challenging patients are usually triaged to surgical or endovascular management. The surgical approach has been the gold standard for treatment of complicated type B dissection. However, the management has been challenging even in cen...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to give an overview of studies investigating the role of fludeoxyglucose F18 ((18)F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) scanning in patients with aortic aneurysms with a focus on molecular characteristics of the aneurysm wall. METHODS MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane database were searched for relevant articles. After inclusion and exclusion, we selec...

phy. There was, therefore, a real increase in the incidIntroduction ence of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Smoking could be one of the risk factors. Auerbach [2] noted eight Acquired abdominal aortic aneurysms classically are times more abdominal aortic aneurysms in smokers characterized anatomically by an unparallelism of the than in non-smokers. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are aorta edges, result...

The isthmic aortic rupture represents the main cause of death in car crash accidents, because of closed chest trauma. Early medical and surgical care and endovascular prosthesis treatment with semi-invasive method can improve short and mid term survival. Nine patients with traumatic isthmic aortic rupture underwent endoprosthesis aortic implantation. All the patients were male, mean age 42.48 +...

After developing sudden severe chest pain, an 11-year-old boy presented to the emergency room with chest pain and palpitations and was unable to stand up. The sudden onset of chest pain was first reported while swimming at school about 30 minutes prior to presentation. Arterial blood pressure (BP) was 150/90 mmHg, heart rate was 120/minute, and the chest pain was combined with shortness of brea...

Rupture of aortic aneurysm is a life-threatening condition. And thoracic aortic aneurysms are usually asymptomatic and not easily diagnosed unless an acute catastrophic complication develops. Because it is rare in young adults, especially in females during peripartum, considering that it occurs most commonly in the sixth and seventh decade of life and males are predominant, 3) the fatal sudden ...

BACKGROUND Medical therapy gives excellent short-term outcomes for patients with Stanford type B acute aortic dissection. However, the affected aorta is often compromised by aneurysmal dilatation and rupture, resulting in poor long-term outcome. The present study investigated which antihypertensive treatment may prevent long-term aortic events in these patients. METHODS AND RESULTS The study ...

BACKGROUND Although type B aortic dissection has been treated with beta blockers to lower the arterial blood pressure (BP), there has been little evidences about reduction in heart rate (HR). We assessed whether tight HR control improved the outcome of medical treatment in patients with aortic dissection. METHODS AND RESULTS From 1997 to 2005, 171 patients with acute aortic dissection medical...