Mussa, M.D., a professor of vascular surgery at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas, Houston, respond to questions they often receive about aortic ... pain in their neck, back ...

While pain of an ascending aortic dissection frequently ... the pain from descending dissection is usually localized to the back sometimes radiating to the abdomen. The pain is frequently ...

Patients that experience sudden symptoms such as chest pain, characterized as a tearing sensation, or back pain, nausea ... months to fully recover from undergoing ascending aortic aneurysm/dissection ...

While pain of an ascending aortic dissection frequently ... the pain from descending dissection is usually localized to the back sometimes radiating to the abdomen. The pain is frequently ...

Earlie Smith experienced an aortic dissection. Months later, her brother, Larry Smith, also had one. The same doctor helped ...

A local man was saved with just hours to spare after doctors at The Christ Hospital performed a bloodless heart surgery.

The shoulder blades are the triangular bones on the back of the shoulders ... and down into the arm are common pain sites. a heart attack aortic dissection, which is a tear in the aorta ...

Patients that experience sudden symptoms such as chest or back pain ... size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is another imaging ...