Two Cases of Schimmelpenning Syndrome by Aniruddha Gulanikar, Aruna Gunreddy

“…Examination and tests reveal coarctation of the aorta, eyelid colobomas, and other findings. The second case involves a 3-month-old girl with nevus sebaceous on her scalp and face. …”
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Laparoscopic Nephroureterectomy with Heminephrectomy for Urothelial Carcinoma of the Upper Renal Pelvis on the Left Side of the Horseshoe Kidney by Taro Ikeda, Kazunori Matsumoto, Go Hasegawa, Yohei Ikeda, Noboru Hara, Tsutomu Nishiyama

“…Preoperative thin-slice contrast-enhanced CT with three-dimensional reconstruction of the images revealed that two arteries arising from the aorta supplied the left moiety of the horseshoe kidney. …”
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Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus by A. Ganes, L. Segan

“…Dextrocardia with situs inversus is a rare embryologic anomaly whereby the heart and aorta are mirrored on the contralateral side. We describe a case of a 93-year-old female with dextrocardia who presented with chest pain, atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response, and transient inferior ST elevation. …”
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Proper Treatment and Management of Postcardiotomy Refractory Vasospasm by Caleb R. Weissman, Stephane Leung Wai Sang

“…We present here a unique case in which a 63-year-old man developed diffuse coronary vasospasm on postoperative day (POD) 1 following uneventful aortic valve replacement, replacement of ascending aorta, and coronary artery bypass. Subsequent emergent coronary angiogram demonstrated diffuse native coronary artery vasospasm that was only transiently responsive to intracardiac nitroglycerin, resulting in persistent cardiogenic shock and severe biventricular dysfunction. …”
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Noncoding RNA in the Regulation of Acute Aortic Dissection: From Profile to Mechanism by Ruibin Wei, Yingqing Feng

“…Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition caused by a tear in the intimal layer of the aorta or bleeding within the aortic wall, resulting in the separation of the layers of the aortic wall. …”
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Endovascular Management of Middle Aortic Syndrome Presenting with Uncontrolled Hypertension by Owen S. Glotzer, Kathryn Bowser, F. Todd Harad, Sandra Weiss

“…Middle Aortic Syndrome is a rare vascular disorder consisting of narrowing or stenosis of the distal thoracic or abdominal aorta. It is described in the literature in the form of case studies and case series. …”
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Giant Cell Arteritis: An Atypical Presentation Diagnosed with the Use of MRI Imaging by Siddesh Shambhu, Lisbet Suarez

“…It is typically characterised by the granulomatous involvement of large and medium sized blood vessels branching of the aorta with particular tendencies for involving the extracranial branches of the carotid artery. …”
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Grade III of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury and Duodenal Perforation due to Multiple Trauma; Which Is Priority? A Case Report by Nasser Malekpour Alamdari, Iman Ansari, Hamed Askarpour, Maryam Abbasi

“…In this patient, considering the stable condition and degree of aorta injury, we chose TEVAR before laparotomy.…”
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Arterial vascularization of testicles, epididymis and ductus dcfereces in chinchilla (chinchilla lanigera) by Aysun Çevik-Demirkan, Vurai Özdemir, İsmail Türkmenoğlu, Murat Akosman

“…The lelt arteria testicularis left from aorta abdominalis alter, approximately 4 mm from the arteria renalis sinister. …”
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Aortic Arch Replacement without Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest by Zviad Bakhutashvili, Lia Janelidze, Kakhaber Beria, Simon Matikashvili, Eduard Limonjiani

“…Surgery was performed and included several steps: (1) resection and reconstruction of ascending aorta and aortic arch using a tube graft, (2) replacement of aortic valve using a biological prosthesis, and (3) coronary artery bypass grafting was performed with two distal anastomoses. …”
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Left Ventricular Noncompaction in a Child with Turner Syndrome by Snigdha Bhatia, Amna Qasim, Murad Almasri, Luba Frank, Ashraf M. Aly

“…The commonly reported CHD in these patients includes bicuspid aortic valve and coarctation of the aorta. Left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) is a rare form of cardiomyopathy that has been reported in literature only three times in adult patients with Turner syndrome. …”
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What Is the Best Proximal Anastomosis for the Free Right Internal Thoracic Artery during Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Revascularization? A Prospective, Randomized Study by S. Neragi-Miandoab, R. E. Michler, F. Lalezarzadeh, R. Bello, J. J. DeRose

“…Acute flow measurements indicate that the free RITA anastomosed to the aorta provides more acute fractional RITA flow than composite “t” grafting to the LITA. …”
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Unusual Pattern of Coeliac Trunk and Its Branches: A Cadaveric Study of Two Cases with its Embryological and Clinical Correlation by Ariyanachi KALIAPPAN, Rohini MOTWANI, Mrudula CHANDRUPATLA

“…The coeliac trunk, the first anterior branch, often originates at the level of the T12 vertebral body, right below the aortic hiatus, as the first ventral branch of the abdominal aorta. It commonly divides into the left gastric, common hepatic, and splenic arteries. …”
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Interrupted Aortic Arch in an Adult with Polycystic Kidney Disease by Ayşe Şeker Koçkara, Mansur Kayataş, Can Huzmeli, Ferhan Candan, Cesur Gümüş

“…Interrupted aortic arch (IAA) is a lethal congenital cardiac abnormality seen with a frequency of 3/1000000 births and is defined as a segment of the arcus aorta being atresic. In the literature, there are no any reports showing that polycystic kidney disease and interrupted aortic arch occur together. …”
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In vivo monitoring of leukemia-niche interactions in a zebrafish xenograft model. by Anja Arner, Andreas Ettinger, Bradley Wayne Blaser, Bettina Schmid, Irmela Jeremias, Nadia Rostam, Vera Binder-Blaser

“…A specific dissemination pattern of LCs within the CHT was recorded, as they extravasated over time and formed clusters close to the dorsal aorta. Interactions of LCs with macrophages and endothelial cells could be quantitatively characterized. …”
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An Unusual Cardiac Cause of Unilateral Neonatal Wheezing by James Brock, Eliezer Nussbaum, Jared Shows, Son Nguyen, Shaun P. Setty

“…On DOL 7, she underwent cardiac surgery which included resection of the ductal aneurysm, patch reconstruction of the transverse aortic arch and descending aorta, patent ductus arteriosus excision, and atrial secundum septal defect repair. …”
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A Case of Aortopulmonary Window: Asymptomatic until the First Pregnancy by Murat Kose, Serra Ucar, Samim Emet, Timur Selcuk Akpinar, Kıvanc Yalin

“…The aortopulmonary window (APW) is an abnormal communication between the ascending aorta and the pulmonary trunk in the presence of two separate semilunar valves. …”
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Aortic Graft Infection as a Cause of Multiple Brain Infarcts by Vassiliki Tsirka, Jelena Maletic, Panagiotis Ioannidis, Dimitrios Karacostas

“…She was presented with fever and acute onset neurological deficit, and she had a previous history of replacement of ascending aorta with a prosthetic graft, because of aortic aneurysm 2 years before her admission. …”
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Different endovascular solutions for short, wide and conic shaped neck by Sinan Ozcelik, Murat Gevrek, Mehmet Ali Unal, Baran Karadeniz, Altay Alili, Naim Boran Tumer, Hakki Zafer Iscan

“…Surgeon modified fenestrated stent graft (SMFSG) may be an effective and available solution in proper patients by changing the proximal sealing of EVAR to the abdominal visceral aorta. Here we present two frail, comorbid, symptomatic infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (iAAA) cases with reverse tapered wide necks treated with different endovascular techniques. …”
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Automation of Hessian-Based Tubularity Measure Response Function in 3D Biomedical Images by Oleksandr P. Dzyubak, Erik L. Ritman

“…The blood vessels and nerve trees consist of tubular objects interconnected into a complex tree- or web-like structure that has a range of structural scale 5 μm diameter capillaries to 3 cm aorta. This large-scale range presents two major problems; one is just making the measurements, and the other is the exponential increase of component numbers with decreasing scale. …”
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