This article describes the case of a 10-year-old girl with generalized tortuosity and lengthening of all her major arteries-the carotid arteries, the aorta from the arcus to the bifurcation, and the ...

The aorta is the largest artery in the body to which all other major arteries are connected. It is a big tube-like structure, usually about 1 inch wide in diameter, although its size varies ...

The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the heart to the lower part of the body. In early fetal development, it forms from two smaller blood vessels, called the ...

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Peripheral arteriosclerosis was present, and he had an elongated and tortuous aorta on x-ray study of the chest. After initial evaluation chlorothiazide, 0.5 gm. a day, was started in July ...

I congratulate the PPP Government for its cash grant suspense thriller. Both President Ali and Vice President Jagdeo, two men of exceptional cinematic and melodramatic adaptation, have out ...

Increased ascending aortic length has been suggested to improve risk predictions, but this metric simplifies the aortic shape to a single dimension and doesn’t capture 3D features like ...

Of course, I appreciate that with more than a billion citizens, the Indian bureaucracy is overstretched, but doesn’t this tortuous format of forms and this relentlessly frustrating IT procedure ...

Over the last few weeks and months I have been grappling with how I would vote on the assisted dying bill. “I can tell you now that this has been a tortuous decision for me. I am not complaining – ...