When we think of heart-related emergencies, we often picture heart attacks or strokes. But there’s another silent yet life-threatening condition that gets very little attention- aortic aneurysm.

Background Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) has good modern results, but large multicentre longitudinal data on outcomes, especially hospital resource utilisation through childhood and adolescence, are ...

Owing to AAA, between January 1991 and June 2005, 1,784 consecutive patients in our department underwent surgery. Of this population, 506 (28.36%) patients suffered from RAAA. Forty-one cases of ...

UofL Physicians – Neurosurgery, part of UofL Health – Brain & Spine Institute, is the first in Kentucky to be accepted into the next phase of a multicenter FDA study evaluating an alternative ...

Also present were a 3.5 cm right common iliac artery aneurysm and a 3.0 cm left common iliac artery aneurysm (see Figure 1). The left kidney was small and noted to be 6.3 cm in length.

Given the type (fusiform) and size of the aneurysm and its presence in a woman within the childbearing age (criteria for aneurysm repair), a 10-hour elective open surgical procedure was undertaken 6 ...

An aortic CT angiogram showed no evidence of aortic dissection, but incidental bilateral renal artery beading with a 22 × 11 mm right renal artery fusiform aneurysm as well as focal stenosis of the ...

Berry aneurysms usually occur at the junctions between two sets of arteries that supply blood to the brain—the internal carotid and vertebral arteries. They are most common in the circle of ...

Objective Our aim was to describe our experience of the Multilayer Flow Modulator (MFM, Cardiatis, Isnes, Belgium) used in the treatment of type III renal artery aneurysms (RAA).Methods This is a ...

This elongation commonly resulted in bowing of the aneurysm-containing aorta to the left, but in 2 cases the aneurysm presented as a right-sided abdominal structure through the small-bowel mesentery.

Saccular aneurysms are the most common type of brain aneurysm. They bulge out in a dome shape. They're connected to the artery by a narrow “neck.” A saccular aneurysm is also known as a ...