A woman in her late 80s presented at midnight to the emergency department with sudden onset difficulty breathing, neck pain ...

Ultrasound can be used as a first-line tool for regular and follow-up screening for aortic aneurysms in patients with giant cell arteritis due to a strong correlation with CT results, a study shows.

Prediction of aneurysm rupture has been a great challenge for decades. We report a successful rupture site prediction on a 97 mm abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). A 73-year-old man with an 11-year ...

Time for a heart-to-heart. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the US, killing more Americans than cancer and unintentional injuries — including car crashes, falls and overdoses — ...

NAPLES, Fla. — 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, a ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

The FDA has approved the Gore EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis (TAMBE) device to treat aortic aneurysms. A surgical team at Intermountain Medical Center was the first outside of ...

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.

Introduction Type II endoleaks (T2ELs) following endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) can lead to aneurysm growth, compromising the stent graft seal and risking ...