Of all of the aortic segments, the aortic arch is the last frontier for endovascular treatment. The main difficulty for arch repair is the lack of an appropriate proximal landing zone of at least 2 to ...

Your aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The thoracoabdominal aorta starts after the curve of the cane and extends past the arteries that deliver blood to the stomach, ...

Endospan, a privately held, Israel-based company focused on the endovascular repair of aortic arch disease, announced 1-year ...

A novel treatment developed by UCSF vascular surgeons has been used in a first-of-its-kind operation to repair a life-threatening aneurysm in the patient’s aortic arch, which carries blood from the ...

In order to find out what distinguishes the repeatedly affected vascular regions from others, Daniela Wenzel and her team from Bochum and Bonn, which is part of the Collaborative Research ...

Two of the company’s aortic stents have displayed potential to improve patient outcomes post-surgery.

With approximately 35 million people affected by aortic conditions globally medical science has introduced a minimally invasive treatment known as TEVAR Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair ...

Between the simpler approach of ascending aortic hemiarch replacement and a full-on extended arch reconstruction, overall ...

ANEURYSMS of the thoracic aorta may be of diverse etiology. Atherosclerosis, syphilis, medial degeneration, trauma and occasionally sepsis have been implicated. 1–4 The present case represents a ...

A 56-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension, congestive heart failure, heavy smoking, alcoholism, and a small abdominal aortic aneurysm developed a 10 cm sacular aneurysm arising from the ...