Endovascular management concepts have recently emerged as valuable treatment options for both simple and complex disorders involving both the distal arch and descending thoracic aorta. With growing use of endovascular stent-grafts the technique has generated broad interest. Nevertheless, an ideal device for different thoracic aortic conditions is not available yet. After initially using the fir...

The arch of the aorta lies in the superior mediastinum and extends from the level of the second right sternocostal joint and ascends diagonally and to the left anterior to the trachea and descends to the left of the fourth thoracic vertebral body continuing as the descending thoracic aorta [1]. The arch of the aorta normally gives rise to three branches namely the brachiocephalic, left common c...

Ortner’s syndrome is a non-specific symptom of thoracic aortic aneurysm, therefore, it constitutes challenge — both, diagnostic and therapeutical for contemporary physicians. This paper presents the case 70-year-old patient reporting hoarse voice several months. Due to suspicion neoplastic disease, diagnostics were deepened during this diagnostic, an aneurysm descending aorta with concurrent in...

treatment of a tuberculous aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta in a young patient. A 28-year old male patient was diagnosed with a mycotic aortic tuberculous aneurysm (Fig. 1A) and a thoracic endoprosthesis was implanted. An additional 6-month course of tuberculostatic drugs was completed. After 24 months of follow-up, the patient remains asymptomatic with no evidence of infection recurre...

Aneurysm of descending thoracic aorta, in majority of cases is diagnosed either by chance in routine chest imaging for some other reasons or rarely due to it's symptomatic presentation like chest pain and other mediastinal compression symptoms. In this case report we present a case of 69 year old smoker who presented with cough, hemoptysis and left sided massive painless hemorrhagic pleural eff...

abstract a cardiovascular problem is one of the common complications of diabetes. connexin is the predominant protein subunit in gap junction structure which is important in communication between cells. considering the role of connexin, this question can be created in the mind whether changes in phosphorylated connexin 43 occurs in diabetics thoracic aorta or not? 20 male wistar rats (30050g) ...

Descending thoracic aorta to femoral artery bypass has been used as a remedial operation after aortic or axillofemoral graft failure or graft infection and other intra-abdominal pathologies not amenable to standard aortofemoral revascularization. It can avoid abdomen approach and has been known as a durable procedure with excellent long-term patency. We reported descending thoracic aorta to fem...

We report a primary malignant tumor of the thoracic aorta with clinical-course from onset to death. A 63-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with intermittent claudication and bilateral lower extremity pain. The diagnosis was established after an abdominal operation. The tumor was subsequently resected including the thoracic aorta and replaced with a dacron graft. The pathological findin...

Arterial pseudoaneurysm has been reported as a possible complication of immunodeficiency virus infection. We report two cases of HIVpositive patients with a pseudoaneurysm at the level of the descending thoracic aorta. The first patient refused surgery and has been followed up to 14 months, whereas the second patient underwent successful surgical repair. The importance of magnetic resonance ima...

Data are presented which demonstrate no correlation between atrial electrical activity and diameter changes in the descending thoracic aorta of dogs or rabbits. The experiments conducted included bypassing a segment of the descending thoracic aorta in dogs, and production of a variety of arrhythmias without the bypass in dogs and rabbits. We found no evidence of electrical stimulation-induced p...