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Gore & Associates announced that the company’s TAG thoracic branch endoprosthesis (TBE) has received FDA approval for us ...
Aortic coarctation, first described by Morgagni during an autopsy of a monk in 1760, is characterised by a circumscript narrowing in the region of the ligamentum arteriosum, at the level of the distal ...
Endospan’s NEXUS® Aortic Arch Stent Graft System is the first endovascular off-the-shelf system with CE Mark to treat a greatly underserved group of patients diagnosed with a dilative lesion ...
Objectives This study aims to describe the various presentations of the prenatally diagnosed isolated right aortic arch (RAA), that is, without associated congenital heart defect and to evaluate the ...
Baroreceptors, sensors that play a role in controlling arterial blood pressure (BP), are mechanical stretch receptors located in the aortic arch and carotid sinuses. Factors affecting the degree of ...
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Sensory nerve endings located at the aortic arch employ baroreceptors that convert stretch exerted on the arterial wall into action potentials carried by the vagus nerve to second order neurons ...
Others are located in the aortic arch, right next to the heart. But in 1957 it was predicted that another group of these baroreceptors should be present in the kidneys, specifically in what are ...
Nighttime blood pressure (BP) generally dips by 10% to 20% of the daytime values, and abnormal BP dipping may affect vascular health independently of BP level. The regulation of BP dipping involves ...