A thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is a bulge in the wall of the aorta, the body’s largest artery. If the aneurysm grows too ...

New Published Practice Guidelines In 2010, the first practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of thoracic aortic disease were jointly published by the American College of Cardiology ...

Investigators have discovered a new pathway that may lead to a treatment for high blood pressure and aortic aneurysms. By creating a new laboratory model for studying these conditions, the team ...

Vascular surgeons at St. Peter’s Hospital have performed the Capital Region’s first procedure of its kind to treat life-threatening aortic aneurysms. The surgeons have successfully performed ...

Patients at Baylor Medicine, the primary multidisciplinary clinical practice of Baylor College of Medicine, and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center who have experienced complex aortic aneurysms can now ...

TCT 35: Evaluating Regional Variation in Outcomes for Ruptured Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms Across the United States (2010-2020) ...

An aortic root aneurysm is a bulge in the first section of the aorta, where the artery joins the heart and aortic valve. Learn more about aortic root aneurysm.

The extent of aortic disease can be monitored by imaging techniques, such as computed tomography angiography, Magnetic Resonance angiography and chest X-ray and advances in these imaging ...

Twelve patients with dissecting aneurysm of the thoracic aorta were treated by resection of the diseased aorta and prosthetic graft replacement. The operative mortality was 25 per cent.

Using human cells in laboratory rats, Michigan Medicine researchers have developed a functional model of thoracic aortic aneurysm, creating opportunities for more effective understanding of ...

Equally important is scanning the aorta of those at-risk groups; those with certain connective tissue disorders or with a family history of aortic aneurysms.