Just above the aortic valve, there are two branches, known as the left main ... This part is known as the ascending aorta. The aorta then arches downwards and to the left. This part is the aortic ...

Ascending Aortic Dissection An ascending aortic dissection affects the part of your aorta that branches off from your heart. It’s also called a type A aortic dissection. A type A dissection can affect ...

GORE ® Ascending Stent Graft ... initially investigated the use of the GORE ® TAG ® Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis (Aortic Extender) in Type A dissection, which is also being evaluated in ...

Each woman suffered the same rare heart disease, but at different times and with different surgeries, one more complicated ...

Surgeons not associated with his case said Mr. Holbrooke most likely had the most common type of tear, which occurs in the ascending ... aortic dissection where one or more of the branches of ...

The lungs were clear except for moderate bilateral hilar thickening and secondary root-branch accentuation ... on the right aspect of the aorta in its ascending portion, which measured 13 cm.

1–4 The present case represents a notable exception in that an aneurysm of the ascending aorta resulted from a nonspecific giant-cell aortitis. A.L. (M.G.H. 1283255), a 30-year-old Negro mother ...

Over the last 26 years, he has undergone five major surgeries on different parts of the aorta spanning head to tummy. He was in school when an aneurysm of ascending aorta near his heart was ...

CHICAGO, April 28, 2025 — The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) today announced the launch of its latest surgical risk calculator designed for patients undergoing ascending aorta and aortic ...

Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of a rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium – an accumulation of blood in the sac around his heart – his wife, Dr. Céline Gounder ...