This type of surgery is most often recommended for TAAs that occur on the aortic root, ascending aorta, and aortic arch. For open surgery for a descending thoracic aortic aneurysm we typically need to ...

We are familiar with heart attack stroke and cardiac arrest as fatal heart conditions but there are many other conditions ...

Q: I was recently diagnosed with an aortic thoracic aneurysm and scheduled for surgery. What are the risks, and can I expect to live a normal life afterward? A: As difficult as it is to hear the ...

People who don't realize they're living with an abdominal aortic aneurysm may face a sudden aortic rupture or tear and massive, catastrophic bleeding. Here's how doctors and patients decide when ...

A 2020 study including 738 people undergoing surgery for an ascending aortic aneurysm found that 5.96% (44 people) died in the period shortly after surgery. Survival may also have improved over time.

Dear Dr Roach: My husband will be 83 in September and was recently diagnosed with an ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm measuring 4.8 cm. Five centimeters is when they do something. After hearing ...

Tolbert, 51, underwent surgery for a thoracic aortic aneurysm Aug. 30 at Stanford Hospital. Tolbert said that when he awoke from the operation, he learned how close he “had come to shaking hands ...

At 4 centimeters (cm), an aortic aneurysm is either safe to monitor with imaging or at risk of rupturing, which may require surgery to prevent serious complications. The aorta is the body’s ...

An aneurysm is the ballooning in the wall of a blood vessel, reaching 1.5x its normal diameter. When an aneurysm occurs in the chest, it’s called a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA). If it occurs below ...