
Center for Aortic Disease
The UCSF Center for Aortic Disease cares for patients with conditions involving the aorta, the large artery that carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body. These conditions include aneurysms (weakness in the artery wall that leads to a bulge), tears and blockages.
Our team includes vascular and cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, radiologists, rheumatologists and geneticists. Together, we provide the full range of services, from the most advanced treatment techniques to monitoring and long-term follow-up care.
Our surgeons have expertise in both traditional and minimally invasive procedures, including endovascular techniques, in which the aorta is reached through a small incision near the hip. Our team has pioneered endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms using stent grafts, which are tubes made of metal mesh and fabric that reinforce the artery wall.
UCSF is the only medical center in California that can treat certain complex aneurysms using branched stent grafts, which have branched limbs that deliver blood flow directly to the organs that need it. This experimental technique is available at UCSF through a clinical trial.
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Monitoring Local Tissue Oxygen Changes Using the Wireless Lumee Oxygen Platform in Correlation ...
Correlation of measurements between subcutaneous tissue oxygen concentration expressed by the Lumee Oxygen Index (LOI; unitless; measured by the Wireless Lumee Oxygen Platform) and transcutaneous partial pressure of oxygen (TcPO2;...
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Monitoring Local Tissue Oxygen Changes Using the Wireless Lumee Oxygen Platform in Correlation ...
Correlation of measurements between subcutaneous tissue oxygen concentration expressed by the Lumee Oxygen Index (LOI; unitless; measured by the Wireless Lumee Oxygen Platform) and transcutaneous partial pressure of oxygen (TcPO2;...
Recruiting
THE OMEGA-SPM-DOSE and OMEGA-SPM-PAD: Specialized Pro-Resolving Mediators in Patients With Peri...
The smallest dose administered in Phase 1a participants which results in an increase in Resolution Index at least 3 times that of baseline, or the subsequent larger dose resulting in a Resolution Index greater than 2 times that of...
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