Awareness of the clinical significance of thoracic aortic aneurismal disease has increased in recent years. As diagnostic tools have improved our ability to identify aortic pathology, surgical ...

A beveled aortic hemiarch replacement is a surgical procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection in the ascending aorta and arch of the aorta. This procedure involves removing the ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Nowadays, doctors can replace any number of body parts with man-made ones, including hips, knees, eye lenses, even heart valves. And the medical advances keep coming. CBS2's Dr ...

Your aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The thoracoabdominal aorta starts after the curve of the cane and extends past the arteries that deliver blood to the stomach, ...

Endovascular repair may be an option for patients with ascending aortic dissection who are considered poor surgical candidates, according to a small observational study published online October 31, ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Boozman, who underwent emergency heart surgery to fix a torn aorta in 2014, will have a follow-up surgery Tuesday in northern Virginia. The Republican from Rogers said ...

Background A 20-year-old male presented with a history of systemic hypertension. Examination revealed a systolic murmur with an early ejection click, and femoral pulses were markedly reduced.

When 52-yearold Devendra Gupta was wheeled into the emergency at BLK super-specialty hospital with a ruptured aorta and dangerously low blood pressure, the doctors didn’t know what to do.

Bicuspid aortic valve surgery involves repairing or replacing a bicuspid valve. The procedure corrects a congenital condition in which a person has two cusps instead of three. A bicuspid aortic valve ...