Aneurysms anywhere in the body are dangerous because they can rupture and cause massive internal bleeding. An ascending aortic aneurysm is especially serious. A rupture in this part of the body ...

Studies of the natural history of ascending aortic aneurysms indicate that aneurysms exceeding 6 cm in maximum diameter are associated with a particularly high risk of complications. In the ...

Ascending aortic aneurysms are a subtype of thoracic aneurysms, which occur in the chest area. They affect thousands of Americans annually and can be life threatening if not monitored. An aneurysm ...

5 Dissection is a distinct process that most often involves the ascending, thoracic, or thoracoabdominal aorta and is rarely the source of aneurysms isolated to the infrarenal aorta. Aneurysms can ...

it is called an abdominal aortic aneurysm. An abdominal aortic aneurysm can occur without any symptoms, and it may not always require treatment. However, in some cases, treatment is necessary to ...

In patients with ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and no other organ-system abnormalities, the absolute risk of aortic dissection is low but increases with larger aortic sizes, according to ...

“In our study, which included the largest-ever cohort of nonsyndromic thoracic aneurysm patients, we found a low risk for aortic dissection for those with aneurysms less than 5.5 cm, and a ...

Increasing government initiatives to reduce the burden of abdominal aortic aneurysm, favourable recommendation and regulatory approvals, mergers, and acquisitions among manufacturers are the key ...

People in England are three times more likely to die from abdominal aortic aneurysms than those in the US, according to a new study. An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a swelling, or aneurysm ...

Only 10 to 15 percent of patients survive the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm; a minority reach the hospital alive, and of these, only about half survive the emergency surgical repair.