In a multicenter, retrospective review of patients admitted with intact and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), ...

Mount Carmel’s heart and vascular teams have debuted several new, highly advanced surgical procedures in Central Ohio.

Respiratory muscles are the only skeletal muscles vital to life. Surgical procedures can affect the respiratory muscles by a number of pathophysiological mechanisms including thoracoabdominal ...

Thoracoabdominal esophagectomy was performed for esophageal tumors and for esophagogastric junction tumors extending into the esophagus. For esophagogastric junction tumors, a thoracoabdominal ...

3 Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Background Most patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are treated with mechanical insufflation–exsufflation (MI-E) in ...

The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen. This muscle, also called the thoracic diaphragm, is the main muscle used for breathing and is also involved in other ...