ANEURYSMS of the thoracic aorta may be of diverse etiology ... From the departments of Surgery and Pathology, Harvard Medical School, and the General Surgical Services and the James Homer Wright ...

THE human aortic valve consists of three cusps made of relatively inelastic, muscle-free material about 0.15 mm thick. It opens and shuts about once a second, and withstands a pressure difference ...

The most commonly used classifications are based on the affected anatomical portion. The Stanford group considers: type A (dissection involving ascending aorta) and type B (descending aorta only). 7 ...

He slit open the 70-year-old duke’s belly and cut down to the aorta, the body’s main artery ... In 67 min. of delicate surgery, Dr. DeBakey cut out the aneurysm and replaced it with a length ...

7 Their cardinal findings are as follows: (1) The first limb of their article leverages the Framingham Study, which includes routine assessment of aortic size by echocardiography and computerized ...

Are there subsets of patients with seemingly asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis who are at high risk for cardiovascular events? Does prophylactic surgery improve the outcome of high-risk cases of ...