What began as a calm summer morning quickly turned into a life-or-death emergency for one Citrus County man, whose survival ...

Aortic aneurysms are characterized by abnormal enlargement of the aorta, the primary artery responsible for carrying blood ...

Over 95% of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) rupture into the retroperitoneal space. Rare types of AAA ruptures comprise ruptures into the inferior vena cava with aortocaval fistula formation (ACF), ...

NAPLES, Fla. (WFTX) — A Southwest Florida doctor says he diagnoses patients with aortic aneurysms every week, a condition that often shows few symptoms until it becomes life-threatening. Joan Licato, ...

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether or not a person might someday suffer an aortic aneurysm, a deadly condition that often causes no ...

The Bentall procedure is a surgical operation used to treat aneurysms and other related conditions in the aorta where the aortic valve is damaged. The procedure involves the replacement of the patient ...

The aorta, also known as the main artery, is now categorized as an independent human organ. This has now been established in the guidelines for aortic surgical treatments of the European Association ...

An aortic root aneurysm is a bulge in the first section of the aorta, where the artery joins the heart and aortic valve. Treatment for an aortic root aneurysm can help prevent serious complications.

A 65-year-old man died alone in a private booth at a Penang gaming club on Monday night after suffering a ruptured aorta — a ...

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

Explanation of the relative high proportion of ruptures in our series can be found in the high occurrence of risk factors (eg, the high rate of heavy smokers, which is characteristic of the region; ...