Aortyx announced today that it brought in $16 million (€13.8 million) to support its bioresorbable aortic patch technology.

A North Texas police officer has a lot to celebrate this Father’s Day, after a brush with a life-threatening heart emergency.

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 ...

Dr Joe Whittington, an emergency medicine expert from California , said the hack could indicate a high risk of suffering an aortic aneurysm.

I had just finished interviewing Ariana Grande on this year’s Oscars red carpet when someone from her team asked me, “Are you going to get away after all this, take a little vacation?” I nodded my ...

Cayron AF, Morel S, Azam M, Haemmerli J, Aoki T, Bijlenga P, Allémann E, Kwak BR. Enhanced intracranial aneurysm development in a rat model of polycystic kidney disease. Cardiovasc Res. 2025 Apr ...

There are currently no medications that treat aortic stenosis, but your physician may recommend that you take other medications to reduce the risk of complications from diseases like high blood ...

The aorta as an organ can be regarded as a biological “windkessel”, storing kinetic energy during systole which is delivered during diastole in order to maintain a relative constant mean aortic ...

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, ...