Introduction. Abdominal aorta aneurysm is a recognized cause of death for the European population. The identification of intra-operative risk factors for perioperative death is of crucial importance for the society. Material and methods. A prospective observational study was conducted in the Vascular Surgery Department of the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland. The study group co...

OBJECTIVE Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta is a life-threatening injury requiring urgent surgical intervention. Despite recent improvements in resuscitation and emergency operative techniques, the outcomes of patients with multiple injuries are still associated with a high mortality rate. We retrospectively examined the preoperative demographic data, associated complications and mortalit...

There is limited information about the size change of a knitted Dacron graft (Gelseal™) used in the thoracic aorta. We evaluated the diameters of the Gelseal™ grafts at a long-term follow-up for 3.7 ± 1.3 years (1-5.9 years; median, 4.0 years), which were used for replacement of the ascending aorta in 59 patients with acute aortic dissection. The early and late dilatation rates (LDRs) of the pr...

AIMS The tyrosine kinase receptor Axl is expressed in the vasculature, and growth arrest-specific protein 6 (Gas6) is its ligand. Plasma Gas6 levels have been shown to be associated with endothelial dysfunction markers and cardiovascular events. We set out to determine the plasma Gas6 levels in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and investigate the expression of Gas6 and...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to collect integrated data from nationwide hospitals using a web-based national database system to build up our own risk model for the outcome from thoracic aortic surgery. METHODS AND RESULTS The Japan Adult Cardiovascular Surgery Database was used; this involved approximately 180 hospitals throughout Japan through a web-based data entry system. Var...

t Superior Mesenteric Artery (SMA) syndrome is an uncommon condition caused by mechanical obstruction of the distal third of the duodenum between the superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta. SMA syndrome is associated with both operative and non-operative corrections of scoliosis, as well as anorexia nervosa, severe weight loss, tumors, burns, and other traumas.[1-4] We report an unu...

HYPOTHESIS Hypothermic total circulatory arrest (TCA) in the resection and replacement of the thoracoabdominal and descending thoracic aorta is safe, will significantly decrease the incidence of postoperative renal failure, and should be preferentially performed over left heart bypass (LHB). DESIGN Retrospective review case series. SETTING Large, private, urban teaching hospital. PATIENTS...

Aortic aneurysms are the 13th-leading cause of mortality in the United States.1 The incidence of thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) is increasing with improvements in screening, as well as advances in imaging.2 Replacement of the ascending aorta accounts for the majority of thoracic aortic procedures. TAAs are more frequently present in men and typically occur in the 50to 70-year age range.3 Disea...

Gross and Hufnagel (1945) and Crafoord and Nylin (1945) independently reported successful repair of the coarctation of aorta. Since then many thousand patients have had surgical correction of this anomaly (Bailey, 1957; Campbell and Baylis, 1956; Cleland et al., 1956; Keith, Rowe, and Vlad, 1958). There have been numerous reports dealing with the immediate post-operative period (d'Abreau and Pa...

A 71-year-old man visited our hospital with the chief complaint of back pain and was diagnosed with acute aortic dissection (Debakey type III, Stanford type B). He was found to have a variant branching pattern in which the right subclavian artery was the fourth branch of the aorta. We performed conservative management for uncomplicated Stanford type B aortic dissection, and the patient was disc...