While visiting Utah, Christine Seppi experienced sudden, severe abdominal and back pain. A rare diagnosis—an abdominal aortic ...

You need to control your blood pressure to prevent the dissection from growing. The dissection can weaken the wall of your aorta. This weakened wall can grow and may develop into an aneurysm, which ...

I had just finished interviewing Ariana Grande on this year’s Oscars red carpet when someone from her team asked me, “Are you ...

Cayron AF, Morel S, Azam M, Haemmerli J, Aoki T, Bijlenga P, Allémann E, Kwak BR. Enhanced intracranial aneurysm development ...

In particular, a high diastolic blood pressure is important for the coronary perfusion ... It may be several years before patients become symptomatic. Aortic dissection and rupture is related to ...

When aortic cells are under stress, such as increased hemodynamic pressure, they adapt to the environment by modifying their functions, allowing the aorta to maintain its strength. To understand the ...

Introduction Interarm systolic BP differential is a classic sign of acute aortic dissection (AAD). All previous studies looking at the association of BP differential with AAD combine systolic BP ...

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In humanized mice, the ACTA2 R179H/+ mutation caused widespread smooth muscle dysfunction, manifesting as decreased blood pressure, aortic dilation and dissection, bladder enlargement, gut dilation, ...

Objectives To describe medical management in aortic dissection (AD ... index year, concomitant disorders (hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, ischaemic stroke, ...

We referred to the European registry of type A aortic dissection definition criteria for definitions of clinical variables (10). Briefly, hypertension was defined as systemic arterial pressure ...

George J. Koullias, MD, PhD Chief, Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery St. Catherine of Siena Hospital System Chief, ...