"Aortic Aneurysm" ed. by Kaan Kirali

This book is dedicated to the main topics on aortic aneurysms and surgical treatments to extend scientific and therapeutic perspective and vision of cardiac teams.

Aortic aneurysms are very silent, insidious, and sudden complicated pathologies with high incidence of sudden death. The aorta has several different parts, which are affected by aneurysmal pathology independently and separately or conjointly. Preventive medicine and determinative genetic heritage are the first steps during diagnosis and precaution. Preventive screening of the general population seems the best way for diagnosing early asymptomatic aneurysms with increased health cost. Because sudden death is the first symptom of aortic aneurysms, early interventional treatment is essential to protect fatal complications. In spite of open surgical repair which is the standard procedure, isolated or hybrid endovascular approaches are used widespread in the last decade due to reduction of procedural complications.

Contents
Preface

1 Introductory Chapter: Limits of Aortic Aneurysm
2 Isolated Aortic Root Aneurysms
3 Experimental and Numerical Study of the Flow Dynamics in Treatment Approaches for Aortic Arch Aneurysms
4 Role of Interventional Treatment of Thoracic Aorta
5 Inflammatory Mediators in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
6 Sexual Dimorphism of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
7 Endograft Sizing for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
8 Coexistence of the Aortic Aneurysm with the Main Vein Anomalies: Its Potential Clinical Implications and Vascular Complication
9 Infected Aortic Aneurysms
10 Computational Fluid Dynamics of Blood Flow in the Abdominal Aorta Post “Chimney” Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (ChEVAR)