Search Tag: aortic diseases
Study: Aortic grafts are feasible to rebuild windpipe and airway
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
ESC 2014: New Aortic Diseases Guidelines
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