descending aorta

Instead medical management is the common response to treating and keeping dissections of the descending aorta under control.

The descending aorta is part of the aorta, the largest artery in the body.

This elongation causes the descending aorta to appear as a vertical shadow on the left heart border.

It is called the descending aorta.

The two dorsal aortae combine to become the descending aorta in later development.

It then bends or arches, and finally moves down through the chest and abdomen (the descending aorta).

Within the abdomen, the descending aorta branches into the two common iliac arteries which serve the pelvis and eventually legs.

This method may even be applied to pathologies of the aortic arch and the distal descending aorta.

The medial surface of the descending aorta and the distal end are also carefully dissected away from the esophagus.

The two arches join to form the descending aorta which is usually on the left side (but maybe right-sided or in the midline).

Holodiastolic flow reversal in the descending aorta.

The descending aorta is the part of the aorta beginning at the aortic arch that runs down through the chest and abdomen.

By birth, the dorsal aorta becomes the descending aorta, while the genital ridges form the gonads.

A - Involves the ascending aorta and/or aortic arch, and possibly the descending aorta.

The ligamentum is divided and two vascular clamps are placed on the junction of the left arch with the descending aorta.

As part of the aorta, it is a direct continuation of the descending aorta (of the thorax).

The part after this hairpin turn takes an inferior course and is known as the descending aorta (or descending part of the aorta).

The tear can originate in the ascending aorta, the aortic arch, or, more rarely, in the descending aorta.

A left anterior-lateral thoracotomy is performed between the fifth and sixth ribs to expose the heart and provide access to the descending aorta.

Oxygenated blood now reaches the left atrium and ventricle, and through the descending aorta reaches the umbilical arteries.

Type III - Originates in descending aorta, rarely extends proximally but will extend distally.

Aneurysms in the ascending aorta may require surgery at a smaller size than aneurysms in the descending aorta.

With the descending aorta exposed, the surgeon applies a side clamp to the aorta, effectively pinching and isolating one side of the great vessel.

At the level of the intervertebral disc between the fourth and fifth thoracic vertebrae, the aortic arch ends and the descending aorta starts.

B - Involves the descending aorta or the arch (distal to right brachiocephalic artery origin), without involvement of the ascending aorta.