The aortic arch—responsible for distributing blood to the brain, neck, and upper limbs—exhibits a range of variations that can influence hemodynamics and procedural risk.

The aortic arch is the portion of the main artery that bends between the ascending and descending aorta. It leaves the heart and ascends, then descends back to create the arch.

Evaluation of aortic arch sidedness and origins of head and neck vessels: echo-arch sidedness is confirmed in the suprasternal frontal view by showing the side to which the first branch courses.

MUCH has been written about occlusive disease involving the great vessels of the aortic arch since the first reports on this subject by Savory1 in 1856 and Broadbent2 in 1875. This clinical entity, ...

If you have an arch aneurysm, it is possible that you may also require bypass grafts to replace vessels that supply blood to your head. While repairing your aorta, your surgeon will inspect your ...

An aortic diverticulum as a component of a right aortic arch either with "mirror-image" branching or with an aberrant left subclavian artery originating from the diverticulum has frequently been ...

In zebrafish harboring the mutation, two aortic arch vessels failed to connect properly to the body’s major artery, the dorsal aorta. Instead, dead-end vessels formed then swelled with blood ...

Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. Thomas, Liji. (2019, February 26). Outlook for Interrupted Aortic Arch. News-Medical.

A novel treatment developed by UCSF vascular surgeons has been used in a first-of-its-kind operation to repair a life-threatening aneurysm in the patient’s aortic arch, which carries blood from the ...

Endospan has completed enrollment in the primary arm of a clinical trial evaluating its stent graft for the treatment of ...

The thoracoabdominal aorta starts after the curve of the cane and extends past the arteries that deliver blood to the stomach, intestines and kidneys. An aneurysm refers to ballooning out of the aorta ...