Aortic dissection is a tear in the aortic intima allowing blood into the media. Type A (ascending aorta) — surgical emergency. Type B (descending) — medical management initially.
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An aneurysm is a bulge or "ballooning" in the wall of an artery. Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood from the heart to other parts of the body. If an aneurysm grows large, it can burst and cause dangerous bleeding or even death.Most aneurysms are in the aorta, the main artery that runs from the heart through the chest and abdomen.There are two types of aortic aneurysm:Thoracic aortic aneurysms (T…
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The study, named as "The Efficacy of Driving Pressure-guided Lung Protective Ventilation in Surgical Repair of Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: an open-label, randomized control clinical trial", aims to investigate whether driving pressure-…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the outcome of patients with pathologies of the ascending thoracic aorta (diseases in the great blood vessel or artery that leads away from the heart) including type A aortic dissection, retrogra…
The Goal of this Clinical Study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Rapidlink device in the repair or replacement of the supra-aortic vessels during open surgical repair of aortic disease affecting the thoracic aorta. This s…
The Castor™ and Cratos™ Branched Aortic Stent Graft Systems are medical devices designed for the minimally invasive endovascular treatment of thoracic aortic pathologies in the descending aorta. The goal of this multi-centre retrospective…
Multicenter, global, prospective, non-randomized, interventional, post-market trial. All subjects enrolled will receive an Abbott Valved Graft device.
The Nordic Consortium for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection-2 (NORCAAD-2) is a multicenter research collaboration involving up to 19 units in the Nordic countries and one in The Netherlands. All patients referred for this condition is include…
This is a national, multicenter, open-label, randomized, controlled, endpoint-blinded clinical trial of patients diagnosed with ATAAD and undergoing "Sun's procedure" coordinated by the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong Universit…
The Montalcino Aortic Consortium (MAC) will provide the infrastructure to assemble large cohorts of patients with mutations in known heritable thoracic aortic disease (H-TAD) genes, define the phenotype associated with these genes, and det…
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