EACTS/STS Guidelines for diagnosing and treating acute and chronic syndromes of the aortic organ

Affiliations

• ¹ Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Department University Heart Center Freiburg Bad Krozingen, University Clinic Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
• ² Faculty of Medicine, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
• ³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Clinic Floridsdorf, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁴ Medical Faculty, Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiology, Dupuytren-2 University Hospital, Limoges, France.
• ⁶ EpiMaCT, Inserm 1094 & IRD 270, Limoges University, Limoges, France.
• ⁷ Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
• ⁸ Cardiac Surgery Unit, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy.
• ⁹ Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
• ¹⁰ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹¹ University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ¹² Aortic Institute at Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Medicine Rostock, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, The University of Texas at Austin/Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Centre Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Cardiac Surgery Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
• ¹⁸ The Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
• ¹⁹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Robert WM Frater Cardiovascular Research Centre, The University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• ²⁰ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Research, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ²¹ Division of Cardiology at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• ²² National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ²³ Vascular Surgery Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria School of Medicine, Varese, Italy.
• ²⁴ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
• ²⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ²⁶ Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
• ²⁷ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ²⁸ Department of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
• ²⁹ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Medicine Essen, Essen, Germany.