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 ...

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 ...

Aortic dissection can cause sudden, severe chest pain that may radiate to the back or neck. It can also cause other symptoms, ...

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 ...

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

The acute onset of severe chest pain was the most common initial complaint (74%), but 33 patients (15%) had painless aortic dissection and abnormal chest roentgenographic findings. Less common ...

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

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 ...