Context.—Managing thoracic aortic aneurysms identified incidentally by increased use of
computed tomography, echocardiography, and magnetic resonance imaging is problematic …

To identify significant predictors of early and late mortality, multivariate discriminant analyses
were applied to the clinical outcome of 175 consecutive patients with thoracic aortic …

BACKGROUND: The natural history of thoracic aortic aneurysm is incompletely understood.
Over the last 10 years, at Yale University we have maintained a large computerized …

Relatively little is known of the natural history of thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA). The limited
data available suggests that survival is at best equivalent to that observed for abdominal …

Thoracic aortic aneurysms were detected in 72 residents (44 women and 28 men) in a
stable midwestern community over a 30-year period, for an age-and sex-adjusted incidence …

In a review of 176 patients with a diagnosis of thoracic aortic aneurysm, the leading cause of
death for 135 patients not treated surgically was ruptured aneurysm. Rupture accounted for …

Background. The decision whether or not to recommend resection of moderately large
descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms requires weighing the relatively high …

Background. Prior work has clarified the cumulative, lifetime risk of rupture or dissection
based on the size of thoracic aneurysms. Ability to estimate simply the yearly rate of rupture …

Aneurysm of the thoracic aorta is less common than in the abdominal aorta, but it is clinically
important because of the risk of rupture and death. Cases are often found incidentally …

Out of 28 patients with arteriosclerotic aortic aneurysm seen between 1965 and 1975, 22
were not surgically repaired. Of these 22 patients, 9 subsequently died of rupture and 7 of …