Thoracic aortic ... Dissection originating in the descending thoracic aorta. This is further classified as IIIa which is confined to the thoracic aorta and IIIb which extends to the abdominal ...

Upon arriving at the hospital, Dennett underwent a CT scan which found he had "a dissection of the aorta," he wrote on the blog ... of oxygen until they could get the heart-lung machine pumping," he ...

Objectives: To evaluate whether preoperative transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) abnormalities are linked to MINS in patients undergoing open vascular surgeries involving the abdominal aorta due to ...