All patients were operated upon by one of us (B.S.), and careful auscultation over the upper and lower aorta and the origins of the celiac, mesenteric, renal and both iliac arteries was carried ...

The valves make sure blood flows in only one direction. The aortic valve keeps blood flowing from the left ventricle to the aorta. Your child may be born with aortic stenosis (congenital). Or it may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objectivity, honest self-assessment, and healthy skepticism are key to remaining true to oneself and keeping in touch with reality. On the other hand, chronic self-doubt and indecisiveness are the ...