The vascular graft may be inserted into the thoracic aorta with the branch portion positioned within a branch vessel and the main portion positioned within the thoracic aorta.

He was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hermann Northeast, where emergency room doctors quickly and astutely diagnosed his dissecting thoracic aorta.

The narrowing is most commonly in the upper thoracic aorta but can occur in the abdominal aorta.

Computed tomography scan depicting a descending thoracic aortic aneurysm with mural thrombus at the level of the left atrium.

In addition, descending aortic thoracic aneurysms may extend distally to involve the abdominal aorta and create a thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm.

TTE is not accurate for diagnosing thoracic aneurysms, and it is particularly limited in its ability to examine the descending thoracic aorta.

The most commonly treated pathologies have been abdominal aortic aneurysm (72%), iliac aneurysms (10%), descending thoracic aortic aneurysms (7%), and Type B dissections (3%).