In its simplest form, coarctation of the aorta (CoA) refers to congenital narrowing thoracic aorta. Usually, a significant pressure gradient between arms and legs is suggestive diagnosis. With advancement aortic imaging in our country many CoA patients are diagnosed at an adult age, but management still carries challenge. We reported case 30-year-old lady with aneurysm involving proximal left s...

Syphilitic aortitis is usually associated with thoracic aortic saccular aneurysm, aortic regurgitation and coronary ostial stenosis. However, syphilitic aneurysms have rarely been reported today. Here, we report a patient with ascending aortic aneurysm with aorta-superior vena cava (SVC) fistula with positive syphilitic test. A 52-year-old man was admitted to our institution with a giant ascend...

An infected aortic arch aneurysm is a rare but life-threatening condition. Moreover, surgical treatment for patients with severe calcified aorta is challenging and needs a well-planned strategy. We report a patient with an infected aortic arch aneurysm concomitant with severe calcification of the aorta in whom good results were obtained with open stent grafting in combination with a trifurcated...

Frequency The prevalence of aortic aneurysms is higher than 3-4% in persons over 65 and over the last 30 years the overall prevalence has increased significantly. The estimated incidence of thoracic aortic aneurysms is 6 cases per 100.000 person/years. Classification Thoracic aneurysms (TAA) are subdivided into 3 groups depending on location: n aneurysm of ascending aorta+/-valvular lesion name...

False aneurysm of the intracranial arteries occurs infrequently as a complication of head injury and rarely as a consequence of other pathology. A case of false aneurysm of the supraclinoid internal carotid artery following minor intraoperative injury during clipping of a basilar-superior cerebellar aneurysm by the pterional approach is described. False aneurysm is a potential cause of recurren...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a systemic granulomatous vasculitis of unknown aetiology, which typically affects the branches of carotid artery (especially the temporal artery), but it can involve any medium-size or large artery, and then its diagnostics becomes much more difficult. The aim of our study is to point up typical histopathological changes in the aorta of GCA patients. In the study w...

A15-year-old girl was referred to our hospital for reevaluation and balloon angioplasty of a previously documented coarctation of the aorta. She had undergone coarctectomy at age 1 week and patch closure of a ventricular septal defect at age 1 year. Three years before referral, she had received balloon angioplasty to relieve postoperative restenosis of the descending aorta; this improved the pr...

OBJECTIVES We present our experience of total aortic arch replacement. METHODS Twenty-nine patients (21 males and 8 females; mean age 63.3 ± 13.3 years) with extended thoracic aortic aneurysms underwent graft replacement. The pathology of the diseased aorta was non-dissecting aneurysm in 11 patients, including one aortitis and aortic dissection in 18 patients (acute type A: one, chronic type ...

Aortic aneurysms (AAs) consist of slow proteolysis and loss of both collagen and elastin matrix in the aorta wall, leading to wall dilation, weakening and rupture in well-advanced lesions. This can occur in both abdominal aorta (Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: AAA) and thoracic aorta (Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: TAA). To date, no non-surgical therapy has been proposed to slow or stop AA progression. P...