The ascending aorta includes the aortic root and sinuses of Valsalva where the blood supply to your heart, via the coronary arteries, originates. The ascending aorta continues upward to form the ...

The right coronary artery can also be involved causing an inferior myocardial infarction. Rupture of the ascending aortic dissection into the pericardium can cause a rapid pericardial effusion ...

Awareness of the clinical significance of thoracic aortic aneurismal disease has ... with reimplantation of the coronary artery ostea into the graft. Refinements to this procedure in recent ...

The vessels that feed the heart are called coronary arteries (shown in the diagram right) and they branch off from the body’s main artery, the aorta, which carries oxygenated blood throughout the body ...

An inferior myocardial infarction results from occlusion of the right coronary artery (RCA ... myocardial infarctions exist and include ascending aortic dissection when the right coronary ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) today announced the launch of its latest surgical risk calculator designed for patients undergoing ascending aorta and aortic root surgery, with or without ...