Your aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The thoracoabdominal aorta starts after the curve of the cane and extends past the arteries that deliver blood to the stomach, ...

Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This “false lumen” can ...

Previously reported associations between fluoroquinolone use and risk for hospitalization with aortic aneurysm or dissection may be due to confounding, an observational study using two databases and ...

Shape Memory Medical Inc., developer of custom shape memory polymers for endovascular applications, today announced enrollment of the first patients in FLAGSHIP, the Company’s prospective, single‑arm, ...

Aortic aneurysm is a degenerative condition that accounts for nearly 2% of all deaths in the industrialized world. 1 Disease progression includes focal changes in connective-tissue structure that ...

In 44 patients with suspected dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, an aortographic diagnosis of dissection, based on the demonstration of a narrowed true lumen and of a false channel, was made in 23.

Research suggests that over 120,000 patients suffer from aortic arch disease in the US and Europe annually, but only around ...

The authors performed a retrospective observational study comparing patients with AAD presenting with chest pain versus those presenting without chest pain. The study was conducted at a tertiary and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canadian actor Alan Thicke died in 2016 from a ruptured aorta three hours after experiencing an aortic dissection. (Credit: Stuart ...