Mortality and morbidity from aortic dissection remain unacceptably high. Early complications carry a high risk of death, and as the anatomy of aortic dissection is usually complex, total aortic ...

Acute aortic dissection occurred in 2 of 416 patients ... this is not a "natural history" study of bicuspid AV; it reflects complication rates in a population that is carefully followed and ...

we have yet to encounter complications related to jailing a coronary guidewire during valve implantation. In our series, we have experienced two cases of aortic dissection (0.8%). The first ...

Its complications are infections and gastrointestinal ... Acute cases are often caused by infective endocarditis or aortic ...

A CT provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), is another ...

A beveled aortic hemiarch replacement is a surgical procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection in the ascending aorta and arch of the aorta. This procedure involves removing the ...

Aortic aneurysms, which is often asymptomatic ... shock and death can occur. The other fatal complication is a dissection of ...