Guideline for the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta: Aortic Arch

Acute and chronic diseases of the thoracic aorta have increased in prevalence and incidence and thus in clinical importance in recent years. The aortic arch, although anatomically a delimited area, is involved in many acute and chronic thoracic aortic pathologies, whether they are proximal thoracic aortic pathologies extending into or beyond the aortic arch, or pathologies of the descending aorta or thoracoabdominal aorta, beginning proximally within the aortic arch. In this respect, this delimit anatomical segment is enormously important as the relation among all three supra-aortic vessels to the underlying pathology must be constantly considered and, depending on the therapy's extent, these must be also included in the decision-making process.[1] [2] [3] [4]