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Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Repair Outcomes Didn’t Suffer in Early COVID-19

As seen for other emergent conditions, the number of patients presenting to US hospitals with acute type A aortic dissections dropped during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, although ...
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Traumatic Aortic Dissection During TAVR for Type 1 Bicuspid Aortic Stenosis

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AHA/ASA Journals

Aortic and Iliac Calcifications as Predictors of Aortic Dissection, Aneurysm Rupture, and Peripheral Vascular Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study from the DANCAVAS Trials

BACKGROUND: There is limited evidence of the relationship between aortic and iliac calcification and aortic events (aortic dissection or aneurysm rupture) and major adverse limb events (MALEs; ...
UPI

Death rate rises among people with aortic dissection

When you feel sudden severe chest or upper back pain, it's easy to assume what's happening is a heart attack. It could be, but it could also be an aortic dissection -- a condition that can be severe ...
News Medical

New risk scoring system for acute type A aortic dissection to assess mortality

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) is a catastrophic disease with fatal outcomes. Malperfusion ...
EurekAlert!

Temporal-specific single-cell atlas of human type A aortic dissection reveals immune cell dynamics and therapeutic targets

This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of how the composition of immune landscape is altered in the aortic wall of diverse types of AD, and opens new avenues for a rational and precise anti-AD ...