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Open AccessArtificial Intelligence Application to Screen Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Using Computed tomography Angiography
The aim of our study is to validate a totally automated deep learning (DL)-based segmentation pipeline to screen abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in computed tomography angiography (CTA) scans. We retrospectiv...
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Deep Learning to Automatically Segment and Analyze Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm from Computed Tomography Angiography
Although segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) thrombus is a crucial step for both the planning of endovascular treatment and the monitoring of the intervention’s outcome, it is still performed manu...
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Endovascular Versus Open Surgical Repair for Ruptured Descending Aortic Pathologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies
Ruptured descending thoracic aorta (rDTA) is an harmful condition requiring emergent treatment. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) is replacing the traditional open repair in the majority of descendin...
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Open AccessGeometric Analysis to Determine Kinking and Shortening of Bridging Stents After Branched Endovascular Aortic Repair
To evaluate bridging stent geometry in patients who underwent branched endovascular aortic repair (B-EVAR) and to correlate the outcomes with intrinsic bridging stent characteristics aiming to identify the ste...
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Open Access3D Automatic Segmentation of Aortic Computed Tomography Angiography Combining Multi-View 2D Convolutional Neural Networks
The quantitative analysis of contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) is essential to assess aortic anatomy, identify pathologies, and perform preoperative planning in vascular surgery. To overc...
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Acute Mesenteric Ischemia: Have the Guidelines of the World Society of Emergency Surgery Analyzed All the Available Evidence?
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What is the Best Revascularization Strategy for Acute Occlusive Arterial Mesenteric Ischemia: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) is a life-threatening disease that leads to bowel infarction and death. The optimal management of AMI remains controversial. The present meta-analysis aimed to estimate the prog...
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Prevalent cardiac, renal and cardiorenal damage in patients with advanced abdominal aortic aneurysms
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), cardiac damage (CD) and the combination of the two are associated with increased morbidity and death in patients admitted to vascular surgery units. We assessed the prevalence of ...
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Open AccessAdipose Tissue Immune Response: Novel Triggers and Consequences for Chronic Inflammatory Conditions
Adipose tissue inflammation mediates the association between excessive body fat accumulation and several chronic inflammatory diseases. A high prevalence of obesity-associated adipose tissue inflammation was o...
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Direct relationship between cell density and FDG uptake in asymptomatic aortic aneurysm close to surgical threshold: an in vivo and in vitro study
Conflicting results have been reported about the clinical value of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) imaging in predicting the risk of rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). The present study tests the hypothesis ...
