Hector W.L. de Beaufort

TL;DR: The aortic arch classification is associated with a consistent geometric pattern of the aortIC arch map, which identifies specific proximal landing zones with suboptimal angulation for stent graft deployment and appears to have progressively less favorable anatomy for thoracic endovascular aorta repair compared with arch I.

TL;DR: The Marfan syndrome cohort that was treated with open surgery for type B dissection seemed to do especially well, with a 0% mortality rate, and follow-up data for type A and B dissections combined show an estimated five-year survival rate of 80.1% and an estimated reintervention rate of 55.3% in patients with Marfan Syndrome.

TL;DR: In this experimental set-up, aortic stiffness increased significantly after stent graft deployment with each of the four types ofStent graft, with the increase in aorti stiffness depending on the extent of Stent graft coverage.

TL;DR: The results of branched TEVAR are promising, yet stroke remains the predominant periprocedural concern, so these procedures should be limited to select expert centers where the design and deployment procedure ofbranched endografts can be further developed to reduce the risk of stroke.

TL;DR: CFD modelling suggests that MALAN improves discrimination of expected displacement forces in proximal landing zones for TEVAR, which might influence clinical outcomes, however, the clinical relevance remains to be validated in a dedicated post-operative outcome analysis of patients treated byTEVAR of the arch.