Alan Lumsden, MD Walter W. Fondren III Presidential Distinguished Chair, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center Chair, Department of ...

The clinical presentation ranges from nonspecific constitutional symptoms in unruptured aneurysms to focal neurological deficits in ruptured aneurysms. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA ...

In 287 (99%) of 291 patients, the postprocedural CTA did not influence our treatment policy in the first 3 months after EVAR. More than half of the early endoleaks were self-limiting, and new ...

and a pigtail catheter for aortic angiography, aiming at planning the procedure, which will be involve coverage of the rupture site (pseudoaneurysm) with a coated stent (Figure 3A), through the use of ...

Another important issue is the time interval between the preoperative CT examination and the EVAR procedure itself. Most of the preprocedural CTAs (74%) of the studied patients were performed ...

Recent studies, both in vitro and in vivo, have implied relevance of lineage-specific SMC functions in the pathophysiology of thoracic aortic diseases; however, whether 2 lineage-derived SMCs have any ...

All complications were analyzed for association with aneurysm size and morphology, aneurysm location, stent type, stent techniques, and stent configuration. The immediate post-embolization angiogram ...