Sara Adair's life was saved after a portable ultrasound connected to her iPhone diagnosed her aortic dissection, leading to ...

Sara Adair knew she was at risk for a life-threatening aortic dissection after her father and sister experienced the same ...

The data raise questions about valve hemodynamics and the role of early imaging to stay ahead of clinical and subclinical ...

Scientists observed male blue-lined octopuses injecting tetrodotoxin into females, which rendered them immobile for mating ...

The applied physicist explains how the structure of 52,000-year-old genes hint at the biology of an extinct animal ...

Aortic Disease: Women with aortopathy (conditions affecting the aorta) tend to be diagnosed at older ages and ... along with ...

Boston Scientific has led a $175 million funding round for the mitral valve developer 4C Medical, which is currently working ...

The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the heart to the lower part of the body. In early fetal development, it forms from two smaller blood vessels, called the ...

Obesity is broadly defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. However, there are different types of obesity classified by their severity. Although the term "morbid obesity" was used in ...

Conventional surgical procedures comprise excision of the entry tear and replacement of the proximal aorta with a synthetic vascular graft. In patients with DeBakey type I dissection, this approach ...

Patients with predominantly cranial vs isolated extracranial GCA phenotypes present with different patterns of arterial involvement on 18F-FDG PET-CT scans.