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Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Repair Outcomes Didn’t Suffer in Early COVID-19

As seen for other emergent conditions, the number of patients presenting to US hospitals with acute type A aortic dissections dropped during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, although ...
News Medical

Women who experience acute aortic dissection are more likely to die than men, shows study

Women who experience acute aortic dissection - a spontaneous and catastrophic tear in one of the body's main arteries - not only are older and have more advanced disease than men when they seek ...
Nature

Management of Acute Aortic Dissection

Acute aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition characterised by the separation of the aortic wall layers, demanding rapid risk stratification, diagnosis and tailored intervention. Initial ...

Artivion: PMA Approval Supports Accelerating Growth And Margin Expansion

Artivion benefits from FDA premarket approval of AMDS, removing adoption barriers and unlocking a $150M U.S. TAM in acute ...
Endovascular Today

Artivion’s AMDS Hybrid Prosthesis Approved by FDA

Artivion, Inc. announced that the FDA has approved the company’s AMDS hybrid prosthesis, an aortic arch remodeling device fo ...
Science Daily

Mortality for acute aortic dissection near one percent per hour during initial onset

The belief among medical professionals in the 1950s that the mortality rate for type A acute aortic dissection during the initial 24 hours was one to two percent per hour appears to hold true in the ...
Medical Xpress

Patients with high-risk clinical features are at high risk for acute aortic dissection

Patients with one or more high-risk clinical features (tearing pain, hypotension, pulse deficit, neurologic deficit, new murmur) should be considered high risk for acute aortic dissection (AAD). That ...

Artivion Announces U.S. FDA Approval of the AMDS Hybrid Prosthesis

(NYSE: AORT), a leading cardiac and vascular surgery company focused on aortic disease, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the premarket approval application ...
Healio

Aortic Dissection - Ascending

Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This “false lumen” can ...
Medscape

Painless Aortic Dissection in the Emergency Department

The authors performed a retrospective observational study comparing patients with AAD presenting with chest pain versus those presenting without chest pain. The study was conducted at a tertiary and ...
Healio

Type A acute aortic dissection more fatal in women than men, but gap closing

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The mortality rate for women with type A acute aortic dissection remains higher than that for men with the ...