The aorta continues on down to the descending aorta that further supplies blood to the rest of your body. An ascending or aortic arch aneurysm refers to ballooning out of the aorta which causes aortic ...

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, ...

Aneurysms in the ascending aorta (the section closest to the heart ... abdominal ultrasound, which the guidelines recommend ...

The purpose of the present communication is to present a case secondary to an arteriosclerotic aneurysm of the abdominal aorta. In Orkin's 1 comprehensive paper, the 26 cases previously recorded ...

During her doctoral research, Esther Maas investigated the use of new ultrasound techniques to image dangerous aortic aneurysms for patient-specific care. An aneurysm is a dangerous vascular ...

Although patients with Loeys-Dietz syndrome are at risk of developing aneurysms in all arteries, the base of the aorta closest to the heart is the site at greatest risk, the researchers say.