Meet the editor

Jeffrey Shuhaiber is a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon at the Heart and Vascular Center and Department of Surgery at Baystate Medical Center and University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Shuhaiber earned his MD from the University of London King's College School of Medicine with distinction and completed his post-graduate medical education at the same institution. He completed his surgical residency at the University of Illinois and

then thoracic surgery at Loyola University, and did his fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital and Cambridge University. He then joined the University of Cincinnati and Children's Hospital as Assistant Professor in Cardiac Surgery. Dr. Shuhaiber has interests in both teaching and clinical research. He has received numerous awards throughout residency and clinical practice. He has had broad training in both acquired and structural heart disease as well as surgery for heart and lung failure. He has been the recipient of first-place awards for research presented at American College of Surgeons Committees. He is a reviewer for several surgical journals and has authored several book chapters, and has authored or coauthored numerous peer-reviewed publications. He performs both clinical and translational research.

Contents

*and Parmanand Singh*

Mycotic Aortic Aneurysms

*by Ruchika Meel and Ricardo Gonçalves*

or to Ensure a Durable Repair?

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 47**

**Chapter 4 67**

**Chapter 5 77**

**Chapter 6 89**

*by Benoit Cosset, Sarah Abdellaoui, Hugo Huvelle, Amine Fikani and Fadi Farhat*

A New Mouse Model of Aortic Aneurysm Induced by Deoxycorticosterone

*by Ozan Unlu, Zaid I. Almarzooq, Diala Steitieh, Matthew Brandorff* 

Challenges for Intelligent Data Analysis Methods in Medical Image

*by Lucas Ribé Bernal, Lucía Requejo, Aida Ribes and Manuel Miralles*

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Associated Large Artery Disease

Extensive Repair in Type A Aortic Dissection: To Save the Patient

*by Abdullah Al Amoudi, Shankar Srinivasan and Mohamed Yacin Sikkandar*

Diagnosis and Surveillance of Aortic Root Dilation

Analysis during Surgical Interventions of Aneurysms

Acetate or Aldosterone in the Presence of High Salt *by Ming C. Gong, Shu Liu and Zhenheng Guo*
