Introduction: Patients with primary acute aortic dissection are at higher risk of complications, including increasing aortic aneurysm diameter, aortic rupture, aortic pseudo aneurysm, and recurrent aortic dissection. Case presentation We presented the case of a recurrent pseudo aneurysm and rupture of the aorta in the distal a...

Corresponding author: Andrea Blasio, MD Division of Cardiac Surgery Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele Via Olgettina, 60 20132 Milan, Italy e-mail: [email protected] A 46 year-old-man, treated in childhood for aortic coarctation and hypoplasia of the aortic arch with a prosthetic graft from the ascending to the descending aorta, presented with a saccular aneurysm at the thoracic aorta. The ...

bicuspid aortic valve is traditionally considered an innocuous congenital anomaly. due to a better and widespread availability of non-invasive imaging techniques, it has come to the fore that 30% of these cases develop complications, viz., valve abnormality (aortic regurgitation and stenosis), and aneurysm of aortic root and ascending aorta. sinus of valsalva aneurysm is an uncommon complicatio...

Morgagni was thought first to have described the condition of coarctation of the aorta in 1760. Crafoord and Nylin (I945) discussed the surgical treatment of coarctation, describing two male patients, aged I2 and 27 years, in whom successful surgery had been performed. Surgical treatment was also described by Kirklin et al. (I952), in an infant ten weeks old and at the other end of the scale, G...

ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to evaluate the use of endovascular intervention in managing native and recurrent aortic coarctation in adult patients. MethodsBalloon angioplasty was undertaken transfemorally in 16 patients (mean age 18.3 ± 4 years old) with arterial hypertension in 12 native and 4 recurrent aortic coarctations. Systolic pressure gradient measurements were taken peri-interve...

we report a unique case of chronic dissection of the ascending aorta complicated with huge and thrombotic pseudoaneurysm in a patient with coarctation of descending aorta. preoperative investigations such as transesophageal echocardiography (tee) confirmed the diagnosis of dissection. intraoperative findings included a12 cm eccentric bulge of the right lateral side of dilated the ascending aort...

The study was carried out on 10 swine of 20-30 kg body weight. Five animals were assigned to each of 2 groups. An aneurysm of the abdominal aorta was created experimentally in animals from the first and second study group. After 4 weeks, animals from the second group were subject to aneurysm repair using an aortic prosthesis. During the experiment, we measured the myoelectric activity of the mu...

a ruptured sinus of valsalva aneurysm rarely accompanies the aortic and tricuspid valve endocarditis. a 36-year-old woman presented with low-threshold dyspnea on exertion and fever. transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography showed a ruptured noncoronary sinus of valsalva aneurysm with large vegetations on the tricuspid and aortic valves, resulting in moderately severe tricuspid regurgi...