Background: Acute aortic dissection is a potentially fatal cardiovascular disorder associated with high mortality. However, current predictive models show a limited ability to efficiently and flexibly ...

Clinically, dissections are often categorized by anatomical location. This localization predicates the medical specialty best-relating to the dissection – aortic and coronary artery dissections, which ...

Part II of this two-part article investigates the hypothesis that excessive elongation could play a role in the occurrence of acute aortic dissection. Contributors All listed author contributed in the ...

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Cardiac amyloidosis is usually suspected on echocardiography, typically performed because of HF symptoms or performed for screening purposes when the diagnosis of amyloidosis has been established in ...

If you have heart valve replacement surgery, you will be prescribed a blood thinner (a.k.a. an anticoagulant) upon discharge from the hospital. Long-term blood thinner medication guidelines differ ...

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