People who don't realize they're living with an abdominal aortic aneurysm may face a sudden aortic rupture or tear and massive, catastrophic bleeding. However, others lucky enough to know in advance ...

Marti and Mary Alice Mullins are twins from a tight-knit family in Ashland. In her late 50s, Marti started experiencing strange and painful symptoms. Every time she ate, she became nauseated and would ...

There is no clearly established strategy for the treatment of a patient with cardiomyopathy and a symptomatic aneurysm of the thoracic aorta. We report the successful use of an approach combining ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Nowadays, doctors can replace any number of body parts with man-made ones, including hips, knees, eye lenses, even heart valves. And the medical advances keep coming. CBS2's Dr ...

NEW ORLEANS -- For older patients with acute dissections affecting the ascending aorta, a more extensive arch reconstruction surgery was not necessarily better, according to nationwide data. Between ...

Your aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The thoracoabdominal aorta starts after the curve of the cane and extends past the arteries that deliver blood to the stomach, ...

Christine Seppi was more than 1,500 miles away from home when her painful symptoms started. Seppi and her husband traveled from their hometown of Pittsburgh to visit family in Utah when she started ...

Aortic valve surgery encompasses a spectrum of interventions designed to correct valvular dysfunction and aortic root pathology. Traditional approaches, such as the Bentall procedure, involve ...

Hospitals that primarily provide care for Medicaid and uninsured patients are less likely to be able to save patients that suffer from severe complications during open abdominal aortic surgery ...