Aortic dissection is a life-threatening medical condition in which a tear occurs in the major artery (aorta) that carries ...

While ascending aortic dissection is a surgical emergency, a descending aortic dissection can be treated medically in most cases. Type I ... is frequently fatal. Acute aortic regurgitation ...

could predict mortality in patients with type B acute aortic dissection. In the population of 201 patients with type B aortic dissection who had survived to hospital discharge, post-discharge ...

There are two classification systems used to describe thoracic aortic dissections: The DeBakey classification: Type I: Dissection originating in the ascending aorta extending a variable length ...

Aortic coarctation is a fatal cardiovascular disease. For Stanford type B aortic coarctation, aortic endovascular isolation (TEVAR) is currently the treatment of choice and is far less invasive than ...

Marie Anne August, 45, was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition called aortic dissection Jam Press/Marie-Anne August Marie Anne August felt a “bubbling” in her chest while at the gym ...

Saxony Lutheran High School 2022 graduate Hiren Parekh — a junior molecular biophysics and biochemistry major at Yale University — presented research regarding Type A aortic dissection in ...