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  2. How many lucky breaks do you get when your aorta is about to ...

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    During the 13 hours, the aortic surgery team moved through a series of procedures to stop the bleeding, repair and reconnect the torn aorta, and try to ensure it would stay intact by wrapping a ...

  3. Aortic valve replacement - Wikipedia

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    The aortic valve is opened during systole, the driving force for it to open is the difference in pressure between the contracting left ventricle of the heart and the aorta. During cardiac diastole (when the heart chamber gets bigger) the aortic valve closes. [5] Aortic stenosis most commonly is the result of calcification of the cusps.

  4. Open aortic surgery - Wikipedia

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    Open aortic surgery (OAS) is used to treat patients with aortic aneurysms greater than 5.5 cm in diameter, to treat aortic rupture of an aneurysm any size, to treat aortic dissections, and to treat acute aortic syndrome. It is used to treat infrarenal aneurysms, as well as juxta- and pararenal aneurysm, thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms ...

  5. Endovascular aneurysm repair - Wikipedia

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    Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) is a type of minimally-invasive endovascular surgery used to treat pathology of the aorta, most commonly an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). When used to treat thoracic aortic disease, the procedure is then specifically termed TEVAR for "thoracic endovascular aortic/aneurysm repair."

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    Lucy Perito was born into an emergency, with a hole in her heart and a narrow aorta. For her 1st birthday, her parents are doing something special. Heart defects could have killed Rumson baby.

  7. Minimally invasive cardiac surgery - Wikipedia

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    Minimally invasive cardiac surgery, encompasses various aspects of cardiac surgical procedures (aortic valve replacement, mitral valve repair, coronary artery bypass surgery, ascending aorta or aortic root surgery) that can be performed with minimally invasive approach either via mini-thoracotomy or mini-sternotomy.

  8. Thoracic aorta injury - Wikipedia

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    The aortic wall is made up of three different components the inner layer (intima), the muscle layer (media), and the outer layer (adventitia). A traumatic injury to the thoracic aorta can cause disruption of any of these parts. Therefore, aortic injury is on a scale from injury to a part of the inner layer to a complete tear of all three layers ...

  9. Aortic valvuloplasty - Wikipedia

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    Aortic valvuloplasty, also known as balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV), is a procedure used to improve blood flow through the aortic valve in conditions that cause aortic stenosis, or narrowing of the aortic valve. It can be performed in various patient populations including fetuses, newborns, children, adults, and pregnant women.

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