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 ...

This study evaluated the value of computed tomographic angiography (CTA ... but none of the deaths were related to abdominal aortic aneurysm or EVAR (four cardiac, two pulmonary, one gastric ...

A CT provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), is another ...

This bulge in the aorta is called an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA ... Some patients feel the aneurysm as a pulsating or throbbing mass in their abdomen. Although an AAA can be discovered during a ...

These patients had no 3-month follow-up but had 6-month CT scans. In the remaining 27 patients, the predischarge CT-scan was not performed owing to logistic reasons in our own institution.