Non-A non-B aortic dissection(AAD)is an infrequently documented condition,comprising of only a small proportion of all AADs.The unique anatomy of the aortic arch and the failure of the existing classifications to adeq...
BACKGROUND Pregnancy-associated spontaneous coronary artery dissection(PSCAD)is an important cause of chest pain and acute myocardial infarction in pregnant and postpartum women.Pregnancy is considered an isolated ris...
BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in patients with Turner syndrome(TS),and cardiovascular surgery is frequently required for management of these patients.TS is associated with medical com...
We present a case of a patient who presented with chest pain,and on diagnostic coronary angiography appeared to have a grossly angulated yet significant coronary stenosis.This was proven to be an artefactual appearanc...
Supported by National Institutes of Health,Nos.R01 HL128350(LL),R01 HL53392 and R01 HL087000(JAT)
AIM To investigate the regulation of Myopalladin(Mypn) and identify its gene network involved in restrictive cardiomyopathy(RCM).METHODS Gene expression values were measured in the heart of a large family of BXD recom...
Pulmonary arterial dissection is an uncommon but usually a deadly complication of chronic pulmonary hypertension. A 26-year-old female patient was admitted to our clinics with sudden dyspnea and chest discomfort one h...
A 65-year-old man developed chest pain under cardiogenic shock. Coronary angiography revealed severe stenosis from the ostium of the left main coronary artery(LMCA) to the left anterior descending artery(LAD). Intrava...
Aortic size index(ASI) has been proposed as a reliable criterion to predict risk for aortic dissection in Turner syndrome with significant thresholds of 20-25 mm/m2. We report a case of aortic arch dissection in a pat...
Patients with chronic aortic dissections are at high risk of catheter-induced complications. We report a 41-year-old patient with a type B aortic dissection (Stanford) who underwent successful three-vessel percutaneou...