Acute aortic dissection is a time critical life-threatening disorder affecting the aorta. Untreated type A dissection is ...

Patients that experience sudden symptoms such as chest or back pain, characterized as a tearing sensation, nausea, vomiting, a fast heartbeat and possibly the feeling of impending doom, may be ...

On Nov. 3, he posted an entry in his online blog describing his condition. Upon arriving at the hospital, Dennett underwent a CT scan which found he had "a dissection of the aorta," he wrote on the ...

Patients that experience sudden symptoms such as chest pain, characterized as a tearing sensation, or back pain, nausea, vomiting, a fast heart beat and possibly the feeling of impending doom, may be ...

She soon learned what was wrong with her — she experienced a postpartum aortic dissection, which can be fatal. She needed ...

Read about plans by the Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust to build a new network of aortic advanced practitioners across the ...

While bicuspid aortic valves are known to be associated with aortic dilation and dissection, the risk of dissection in this population has recently been called into question. Michelena and ...

Computed tomography confirmed the diagnosis of an acute Stanford type B aortic dissection with an entry tear just distal to the origin of the left subclavian artery and progressing caudally to the ...