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Debranch First! or Why Haven’t We Done This All Along for Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms?

12 Jul 202021 Jul 2020
Context Despite all the advances in endovascular repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms, no data shows their superiority in the mid to long term compared to open repair. That is why…
aortic dissection…

Complicated Aortic Dissection Talk

22 Jun 201922 Jun 2019
A basic recipe for treating complicated aortic dissection #aorticsurgery #tevar
acute mesenteric ischemia…

Life imitates social media: a ruptured type V thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm or IT saves a life

21 Jun 201921 Jun 2019
It was only last month when I came across a post of an aortic aneurysm in a difficult spot (link) and I couldn't help chiming in some comments. Reading it…
aortic dissection…

Endovascular Aortic Symposium in Bahrain

15 Jun 2019
I was invited by Dr. Martin Maresch to speak on complicated type B aortic dissections. Should be an exciting day.
AAA…

Moneyballing a Type II Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm

5 Apr 20165 Apr 2016
The innovation of sabremetrics in baseball management and finance as described in Michael Lewis’ wonderful book Moneyball wasn’t just the ability to quantify skill to predict outcomes, it was the…
complications…

Reversing paralysis with a bypass

17 Jan 201617 Jan 2016
The patient is middle aged and had a type B thoracic aortic dissection (TBAD) as a consequence of recreational substances that acutely raised his blood pressure. At the outside hospital,…
acute mesenteric ischemia…

Acute Aortic Syndrome Unit -TBAD with SMA Dissection and Thrombosis with Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

19 Aug 201520 Aug 2015
The figure above shows the summarizes the problem that brought the patient to his local hospital and triggered his transfer to our acute aortic syndrome unit. The concept is that…
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