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Presentations Given at
American Association for Thoracic Surgery Meeting
Philadelphia, April-May, 200
6

Aortic Surgery Decision Making - Dr. Eric Isselbacher
  (Click on the first slide on the left to begin the presentation)

Cerebral Protection in Thoracic Aortic Surgery - Dr. Randall Griepp, Dr. Eva Griepp (Click on the first slide on the left to begin the presentation)

Thoracic Aortic Stent Grafts Should be Performed only by CT Surgeons - Dr. Nicholas Kouchoukos
(Click on the first slide on the left to begin the presentation)

Selected References from the Medical Literature

Overview

Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms


Fifty years of thoracic aortic surgery: lessons learned and future directions

Acute Aortic Syndrome

Acute aortic syndrome: pathology and therapeutic strategies


Multi-detector row computed tomography: imaging in acute aortic syndrome

Comprehensive cardiovascular ECG-gated MDCT as a standard diagnostic tool in patients with acute chest pain

Rupturing ascending aorta missed in the emergency room. Failure to properly evaluate chest pain in patients who subsequently die.  (full text article)

Chest pain: a clinical assessment

Initial evaluation of chest pain

The diagnostic dilemma of acute thoracic pain

Ascending Aorta

Surgical Treatment of Ascending Aorta: When and How

Natural History of a Dilated Ascending Aorta after Aortic Valve Replacement

Hypothermic circulatory arrest is not a risk factor for neurologic morbidity in aortic surgery

Aortic Arch

Prosthetic Replacement of the Aortic Arch (1975)

Aortic Arch Replacement Using a Trifurcated Graft


Aortic Dissection

Aortic enlargement and late reoperation after repair of acute type A aortic dissection


Acute aortic dissection in the young: clinical series

Aortic Diameter >=5.5 cm Is Not a Good Predictor of Type A Aortic Dissection. Observations From the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD)

Characterizing the young patient with aortic dissection: results from the International Registry of Aortic Dissection (IRAD)

The fate of the distal aorta after repair of acute type A aortic dissection


Aortic enlargement and late reoperation after repair of acute type A aortic dissection


Descending and Thoracoabdominal Aorta

Total Circulatory Arrest for Replacement of Descending and Thoracoabdominal Aorta


Growth Rate of Aorta in Chronic Type B Aortic Dissection

Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease


Approach to the Patient with Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Ascending Aortic Aneurysm

Aortic Complications After Bicuspid Aortic Valve Replacement: long term results


Post-Stenotic Aortic Dilatation (full text article) 

Clinical Significance of the Bicuspid Aortic Valve

Bicuspid aortic valve is heritable

Familial thoracic aortic dilation and bicommissural aortic valve: A prospective analysis of natural history and inheritance

Evidence in favor of linkage to human chromosomal regions 18q, 5q and 13q for bicuspid aortic valve and associated cardiovascular malformations

Clinical and pathophysiological implications of a bicuspid aortic valve (full text article)

Ubiquitin fusion degradation 1-like gene dysregulation in bicuspid aortic valve

Bicuspid aortic valve and coarctation: two villains part of a diffuse problem

Mechanisms Underlying Aortic Dilatation in Congenital Aortic Valve Malformation


Dilation of the entire thoracic aorta in patients with bicuspid aortic valve: a magnetic resonance angiography study.

Usefulness of MRI in the follow-up of patients with repaired aortic coarctation and bicuspid aortic valve

Comparison of diameter of ascending aorta in patients with severe aortic stenosis secondary to congenital versus degenerative versus rheumatic etiologies


Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease and TAAD in Children/Young Adults

Ascending aortic aneurysm & dissection in young adults with bicuspid aortic valve

Comparison of the Pattern of Aortic Dilation in Children with Marfan's Syndrome versus Children with Bicuspid Aortic Valve

Dilation of the ascending aorta in pediatric patients with bicuspid aortic valve

Frequency of aortic root dilation in children with a bicuspid aortic valve


Aortic dissection in children and young adults: diagnosis, patients at risk, and outcomes

Progression of aortic dilation in children with a functionally normal bicuspid aortic valve

Progressive dilation of the ascending aorta in children with isolated bicuspid aortic valve

Morphology and function of the bicuspid aortic valve with and without coarctation of the aorta in the young

Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease and Brain Aneurysm
/Dissection

Aortic coarctation is correlated with bicuspid aortic valve and intracranial aneurysm

Congenital Heart Disease and Intracranial Aneurysms

Familial Aorto-Cervicocephalic Arterial Dissections and Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease


Prosthetic Valves

Evaluation of Prosthetic Heart Valves by Transesophageal Echocardiography: Problems, Pitfalls, and Timing of Echocardiography
(full text)


Familial TAAD

Familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections--incidence, modes of inheritance, and phenotypic patterns

Familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections: three families with early-onset ascending and descending aortic dissections in women

Genetic basis of thoracic aortic aneurysms and aortic dissections

Blood Pressure

Stress analysis in a layered aortic arch model under pulsatile blood flow

7th Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7)


Exercise/Weight Lifting

Weight Lifting and Aortic Dissection

Weight Lifting and Type II Aortic Dissection

Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Sports

Bicuspid Aortic Valve: Evaluation of the ability to participate in competitive sports: case reports of two soccer players

Etiologic Factors of Acute Aortic Dissection in Children and Young Adults


Other Topics

Aortic dissection in pregnancy: an analysis of risk factors and outcome

Gender-Related Differences in Acute Aortic Dissection (from International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection)


Recurrent ischemic strokes in a patient with Medtronic-Hall prosthetic aortic valve and valve strands

Mechanical prosthetic valve-associated strands: Pathologic correlates to transesophageal echocardiography

Surgeon Volume and Operative Mortality in the United States

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