UC Davis Health vascular surgeons are among the first in the country to treat patients with thoracic aortic disease by using ...

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 ...

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 ...

The weakened sections of the aortic wall may become unable to support the force of blood flow ... Therefore, your doctor needs to look at pictures (x-rays, CT scan) of your aneurysm and graft on a ...

an infrarenal aortic aneurysm was found, sized 6.5 cm in diameter and not involving the iliac arteries (Figure 2B). After admission, the patient underwent colonoscopy, which confirmed the CT scan ...

Bob Lowth Ford General Manager Todd Moudry had long been in good health, so when he was diagnosed with an ascending aortic ...

However, the cumulative risk of graft migration appears to be higher in patients who required additional proximal aortic extenders at the time of the initial endovascular repair. Presented at the ...