The diagnosis of an ascending aortic aneurysm is best made on CT angiography or MR angiography. Echocardiography can visualized the proximal portion of the aorta, however not the aortic arch and ...

Initial visits to doctors didn't provide many answers. Doctors thought his symptoms were linked to his gastrointestinal ...

If validated prospectively, the findings could be ‘transformative’ for patients with no current medical options.

Otherwise, we will use conscious sedation without a ventilator. We may also use transesophageal echocardiography (a type of ultrasound) to see your aortic valve inserted while you are asleep and then ...

An aneurysm refers to ballooning out of the aorta which causes aortic wall weakening. The aortic wall may continue to further expand or remain unchanged, but close surveillance is necessary. As the ...

Important issues to address are restenosis and/or aneurysm formation after ... in this regard, aortic annulus measure is crucial. Conventional TTE and TEE are largely used in clinical practice ...

Aortic dimensions on their last echocardiogram prior to dissection ... AV had a relative risk of 8.4 for aortic dissection. Aortic aneurysm was present at the time of bicuspid AV diagnosis in ...

In the era of quantitative echocardiography, they remain intellectually and historically interesting. In acute aortic regurgitation, peripheral signs are often absent, and the murmur of aortic ...

Aortic coarctation (CoA ... A study highlighted the successful use of echocardiography-guided stenting in very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight infants, demonstrating that this ...