A noteworthy case study. How to help a teenage girl with familial hypercholesterolemia who has chest pains and is ...

The subdivision into seven segments seems to be clinically important—the aortic root, the ascending aorta, the ascending aortic arch, the vessel bearing arch, the aortic isthmus, and the thoracic ...

In this paper, we tackle the task of simultaneous detection of the fetal heart and descending aorta in four-chamber view of fetal echocardiography, which is useful to analyze some kinds of CHD, such ...

Certain conditions of the heart are better seen with TEE, such as mitral valve disorders, blood clots or masses inside the heart, a tear of the lining of the aorta, and the structure and function of ...

Marfan syndrome affects the cardiovascular system by making the aorta (an artery that begins at the heart and is the largest in the human body) wider and more fragile. This can lead to leakage of the ...

Objectives To describe medical management in aortic dissection (AD) and to analyse the possible associations between antihypertensive, antithrombotic, anticoagulant and statin agents, respectively, ...

Systemic Blockade of TGF-β Signaling and SMC-Specific Loss of TGF-β Signaling Have Tissue-Specific Effects on Abdominal Aortic Adventitia and Media The different effects of the 2 interventions on the ...

Brandt and colleagues compared the clinical outcomes of open surgery versus endovascular repair in 44 patients (mean age 68 ± 13 years) with pathologies of the descending thoracic aorta.

"Ghosh refused to move while descending from the summit," Bhandari quoted Champal Tamang, his guide, as saying. Champal returned to Camp IV late last night and informed about the incident this morning ...

The bank has invested over $5 billion in its branches — what it calls “financial centers” — since 2016. Just four of those will be in a new market: Boise, Idaho. So, at a time of direct ...

Tarek S. Absi, MD;* Thoralf M. Sundt III, MD; Cynthia J. Camillo, MSN;* Richard B. Schuessler, PhD;* Fernando R. Gutierrez, MD * *Department of Surgery, Division of ...