Sara Adair knew she was at risk for a life-threatening aortic dissection after her father and sister experienced the same ...

Researchers have demonstrated, using a novel approach, that the original solution to Dudeney’s famous dissection problem is ...

In the absence of an effective system to gauge the cause of the fatalities, one academic is calling for dissections to be performed for all suspicious fatalities. Data from medical centers and ...

Mussa, M.D., a professor of vascular surgery at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas, Houston, respond to questions they often receive about aortic dissections—and discuss ...

The 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, ...

Galen had based his ideas about the human body on his dissections of animals such as monkeys, dogs and pigs. By dissecting humans, Vesalius was able to improve on Galen’s previous work.