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

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 ...

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.

The entire cohort study consisted of 457 patients (113 emergency and 344 elective cases) who underwent thoracic aortic repair with the Talent Thoracic Stent Graft for different aortic pathologies ...

Using human cells in laboratory rats, Michigan Medicine researchers have developed a functional model of thoracic aortic aneurysm, creating opportunities for more effective understanding of ...

The incidence of thoracic aortic aneurysm is estimated at 6 individuals per 100,000 per year and occurs most commonly in the 6 th and 7 th decade, with hypertension an important risk factor in 60% ...

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 ...

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 ...

In each of the 6 patients the aneurysm was in precisely the same location: immediately distal to the left subclavian artery, at the junction between the aortic arch and the descending aorta.