Sentences with phrase «thoracic aortic aneurysm»

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Massive aggrecan and versican accumulation in thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection.

Brooke, along with co-researchers at Dartmouth College, examined records of more than 12,000 Medicare beneficiaries who underwent open surgery to repair a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), a high - risk procedure, and almost 53,000 who received a ventral hernia repair (VHR), a lower - risk operation, between 2003 - 2010.

Through genetic analysis of a family with a history of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified mutations in the LOX gene, a gene associated with the integrity of the arterial wall, in human subjects for the first time.

Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), an enlargement or tearing of the walls of the aorta in the chest, is, together with abdominal aortic aneurysms, responsible for about 2 % of all deaths in Western countries.

Thoracic aortic aneurysms, or bulges in the artery wall, can develop without pain or other symptoms.

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Aortic dissection, or rupture, is the bursting of an aortic aneurysm and can occur both within the chest (thoracic) and in the abAortic dissection, or rupture, is the bursting of an aortic aneurysm and can occur both within the chest (thoracic) and in the abaortic aneurysm and can occur both within the chest (thoracic) and in the abdomen.

Wake Forest Baptist's cardiothoracic team and surgeons deliver exceptional results for all types of heart conditions through procedures such as aortic valve replacements, heart bypass surgery, heart transplants and surgeries and therapies for thoracic aneurysms.