A Deep Dive into a Growing Market & Life-Saving TechnologyThe aorta, the body’s largest artery, is a vital component of the ...

A Rossendale man is urging people to attend their abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening check when invited. Shaun Flatley, 65, says the scan saved his life. AAA is a bulge in the aorta, the ...

A Lancashire resident says he owes his life to a decision to rebook an appointment for a scan he could not attend when it was first offered.

A man who did not know he had a potentially fatal stomach aneurysm has warned people that ignoring an NHS screening invitation would be like playing "Russian roulette" with your life. Shaun Flatley, ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm ... The large number of patients under observation with small aneurysms presents a great opportunity to attempt to alter the natural progression of the disease process.

Michael Hughes scan showed a large aneurysm (6.6cm/2.6in). "[I was] scared and frightened of it because it's something that I hadn't known about, but they said it was dangerously large," the 67 ...

UK researchers have discovered that drugs that treat high cholesterol could slow the development of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). The study, led by the University of Leicester’s Professor Matthew ...

A 2016 study of nonsurgical management of large abdominal aortic aneurysms found that the individuals studied were more likely to die from nonaneurysm-related causes. Only a small percentage of ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysms can happen anywhere below the diaphragm. The intrarenal area of the abdomen, just below the kidneys, is one of the most common places to develop an abdominal aneurysm.

The deadly condition is called an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and Berg had not one but two of them — measuring 5 centimeters and 6.5 centimeters wide — making surgery dangerous. “It was ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm, a weakening and ballooning of the aorta, ... (T regulatory type 1, or Tr1), which secretes large amounts of anti-inflammatory signaling molecules called IL-10s.

The analysis found: Participants who reported a previous COVID-19 infection were 9.7 times as likely to have rapid abdominal aortic aneurysm growth (higher growth than the average of 2.7 mm per year).