The aorta, the body's main artery, is being given a special honour of the medical world: recognition as an independent human organ. "This is a big step," says Martin Czerny from the Freiburg ...

A 29-year-old man underwent a rare life-saving hybrid cardiac surgery, combining open bypass with minimally invasive ...

Gurgaon: A 29-year-old man from Jharkhand underwent what doctors described as a rare and high-risk hybrid cardiac surgery at ...

In a world-first, a team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, has ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysms can happen anywhere below the diaphragm. The infrarenal area of the abdomen, just below the kidneys, is one of the most common places to develop an abdominal aneurysm. The ...

ONE hundred and ninety saddle emboli at the aortic bifurcation have been reported to date. To these we are adding 3 cases, making a total of 193. Two of our 3 patients were treated by embolectomy, and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alan Thicke's death certificate states the actor died of a ruptured aorta. Thicke's death certificate was released Wednesday, two days after the actor was buried in a Santa Barbara ...

Although the precise mechanism isn’t yet known, factors like sex chromosomes and hormones, particularly the protective ...

MUCH has been written about occlusive disease involving the great vessels of the aortic arch since the first reports on this subject by Savory 1 in 1856 and Broadbent 2 in 1875. This clinical entity, ...

The man was admitted in a critical condition with uncontrolled internal bleeding and was suffering from a ruptured thoracic ...