Sara Adair knows the symptoms of aortic dissections. The hospital analyst's father and sister each experienced the dangerous cardiac condition, when the inner lining of the body's main artery tears ...

Sex differences in the risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of patients with cardiovascular disease have been ...

Debra Reals still remembers lying on a gurney with her father and sister at her side as trauma surgeons explained the ...

In patients with acute type A aortic dissection, receiving surgical repair at a high-volume aortic center is associated with improved survival.

Echocardiography can visualized the proximal portion of the aorta, however not the aortic arch and only minimal portions of the descending thoracic aorta. Transesophageal echocardiography is also ...