Baylor College of Medicine

Beveled Aortic Hemiarch Replacement

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 ...

Endospan Receives FDA Approval for the NEXUS(R) Aortic Arch Stent Graft System

Endospan, a privately-held company pioneering solutions for the endovascular repair of aortic arch disease, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the NEXUS (R) ...

FDA approves Endospan’s aortic stent

Research suggests that over 120,000 patients suffer from aortic arch disease in the US and Europe annually, but only around ...
News Medical

Simpler hemiarch surgery effective for older aortic dissection patients

Ascending aortic hemiarch reconstruction offers the same long-term benefits to patients over age 65 with acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) as more complex extended arch reconstruction procedures, ...
Medscape

New Approach for Aortic Arch Aneurysm: A Newsmaker Interview With Darren Schneider, MD

Oct. 21, 2003 -- Editor's Note: Surgeons have for the first time treated an aortic arch aneurysm with a branched stentgraft allowing a minimally invasive approach, according to a report in the October ...

Artivion Secures FDA Approval for NEXUS Aortic Arch System

AORT jumps after FDA approves NEXUS Aortic Arch System, unlocking a potential Endospan acquisition and advancing minimally ...

Artivion Announces U.S. FDA Approval of the NEXUS® Aortic Arch System

Artivion, Inc. (NYSE: AORT), a leading cardiac and vascular surgery company focused on aortic disease, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the premarket ...
TCTMD

Percutaneous Reconstruction of Interrupted Aortic Arch

A 25 year-old man was referred to our center as a case of uncontrolled hypertension due to coarctation of aorta. On clinical examination, the pulses in upper limbs were bounding, femoral pulses were ...
Baylor College of Medicine

Ascending and Arch Aortic Aneurysms and Dissection

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, ...
KUTV

Check Your Health- Utah's First Less Invasive Aortic Procedure

Intermountain Health surgeons have achieved a medical milestone for Utah patients by successfully performing the state’s first procedure to repair a lesion or tear in the ascending aorta, the largest ...
MedPage Today

Cooling Technique Frowned Upon in Aortic Arch Surgery

SAN ANTONIO -- During aortic arch surgery, even short bouts of hypothermic circulatory arrest (HCA) were associated with neurocognitive and neuroimaging deficits after surgery regardless of the level ...