Pocket Guidelines on Aortic Disease

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Tables of Contents

• Introduction
• The normal and the ageing aorta
• Assessment of the aorta
  • Clinical examination
  • Laboratory testing
  • Imaging
  • Assessment of aortic stiffness
• Acute thoracic aortic syndromes
  • Definition and classification
  • Acute aortic dissection
  • Intramural haematomia
  • Penetrating aortic ulcer
  • Aortic pseudo-aneurysm
  • (Contained) rupture of aortic aneurysm
  • Traumatic aortic injury
  • Latrogenic aortic dissection
• Aortic aneurysms
  • Thoracic aortic aneurysm
  • Abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Genetic diseases affecting the aorta
  • Chromosomal and inherited syndromic thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissection
  • Aortic diseases associated with bicuspid aortic valve
  • Coarctation of the aorta
• Atherosclerotic lesions of the aorta
  • Thrombo-embolic aortic disease
  • Mobile aortic thrombosis
  • Atherosclerotic aortic occlusion
  • Calcified aorta
  • Coral reef aorta
• Aortitis
• Aortic tumours
• Long-term follow-up of aortic diseases
  • Chronic aortic dissection
  • Follow-up after thoracic aortic intervention
  • Follow-up of patients after intervention for abdominal aortic aneurysm