This is bad enough in most arteries, but imagine if the artery involved were the biggest in your body? The vessel in question is the aorta. Aortic aneurysms can develop slowly and insidiously, without ...

The normal size of the aorta (the large artery that exits the heart, travels through the chest and down into the abdomen) is about 2.5 centimeters in diameter or a little smaller. As we age, the ...

The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday advised healthcare facilities to move away from using Getinge's heart ...

William Innes is slated to be sentenced next month to five years and eight months in state prison for the killing of Annette ...

The family made an appointment with a cardiologist, who told them that Sadie had a minor coarctation of her aorta. According ...

This is how trauma lives in the body, tentacled through our sense memory. So much of the terrible night my son died remains a ...

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Vascular. 2010;18(1):41-44. As a consequence of the widespread availability of advanced diagnostic tests, thoracic aorta thrombi will continue to be diagnosed with increased frequency ...

Front Line Medical Technologies Inc. recently received CE mark for its Cobra-OS, the smallest REBOA (resuscitative ...

Three months after her pediatrician discovered during a routine exam that Lily Leonard, 9, had a heart murmur, she underwent a five-hour surgery that saved her life.

Al Qassimi Hospital in Sharjah hosted the second International Gulf Aorta Summit, with participation from over 42 countries and more than 1200 attendees.