Search Tag: aortic diseases

Cardiology Management

2024 30 Aug

  The 2024 ESC Guidelines for the Management of Peripheral Arterial and Aortic Diseases (PAAD) approach these vascular conditions as interconnected components of the cardiovascular system, acknowledging that patients with aortic diseases often have a concurrent risk of peripheral vascular diseases and vice versa. Although primarily aimed at cardiologists,...Read more

ICU Management

2018 01 Jun

A French study of patients with lung cancer or end-stage tracheal lesions has successfully used cryopreserved human aortic grafts to rebuild the windpipe and airway sections removed because of disease. The study is published in JAMA, to concide with its presentation at the American Thoracic Society 2018 conference.   The study, Airway and/or Pulmonary...Read more

Cardiology Management

2014 03 Sep

The 2014 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic diseases offer a comprehensive discussion of the acute and chronic diseases of the thoracic and abdominal aorta in adult patients. The document fills the gap between multiple ESC Guidelines on different heart conditions and on peripheral artery diseases published in 2011, according to...Read more