Sometimes the aorta—the largest blood vessel in our bodies—can tear, allowing blood to flow between layers of the aortic wall. This dissection can block blood from flowing to other parts of the body, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cook Medical announced that its endovascular device to repair type B aortic dissections was recently approved by ...

GREENVILLE, N.C (WNCT)- ECU Health held its first-annual Aortic Dissection Awareness Day during Aortic Disease Awareness Month. The event aimed to educate health professionals, as well as, patients at ...

Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) groups together several severe, aortic, life-threatening conditions, which include acute aortic dissection, intramural haematoma (IMH), and penetrating aortic ulcer (PAU) ...

Will Penny and his wife were going for a run on Oct. 30 in their Northwest Austin neighborhood. It wasn't even a difficult run, just 2.1 miles, something they had done regularly. This time, though, as ...

Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), an enlargement or tearing of the walls of the aorta in the chest, is, together with abdominal aortic aneurysms, responsible for about 2% of all deaths ...

More than two decades’ worth of data from a large Japanese registry are shedding light on the factors that up the odds a person will die from aortic disease—most salient are heavy smoking, higher ...

Women who experience acute aortic dissection - a spontaneous and catastrophic tear in one of the body's main arteries - not only are older and have more advanced disease than men when they seek ...

Members of the CVRI Theme “Aortic, Vascular and Valvular Disease Research” lead a broad range of translational and clinical investigations spanning valvular heart disease, aortopathy, peripheral ...

Patients who have an error in the gene known as LOX—shorthand for lysyl oxidase, the enzyme it encodes—are particularly prone to thoracic aortic aneurysm and ...

Japanese manga artist Kentaro Miura, author of the critically-acclaimed Berserk series, passed away at the age of 54 this month as a result of acute aortic dissection, making global headlines.

Marfan syndrome is a genetic condition. It occurs because of a mutation (change) in one of your genes that develops before you’re born. It’s a type of connective tissue disorder, meaning it affects ...