The severity of AAD was classified as we have reported previously 14 modification of the classification system described by Daugherty et al 12: normal aorta, dilated aorta, aortic aneurysm without ...

Patients were excluded if they had bicuspid valves, aortic dissection, or heritable aortopathy. All tissues were collected within 4 hours of death for Rapid Autopsy participants and during transplant ...

It may be several years before patients become symptomatic. Aortic dissection and rupture is related to aortic diameter and expansion rate in many situations (table 2). The mean (SD) expansion rate in ...

Aortic valve narrowing (aortic stenosis) with concomitant cardiac amyloidosis is a severe heart disease of old age that is associated with a high risk of death. Until now, treatment has consisted of ...