Aortic dissection has long been considered a rare, unpreventable and inevitably fatal disease. However, recent advances now prove otherwise. The patient-led Think Aorta campaign is challenging old ...

They looked at the time period from 2005 to 2019 and identified over 125,000 patients who had spontaneous cervical artery dissection and showed that it increased from 10.7 cases per million in ...

LAS VEGAS (WKRC) - A woman claimed a chiropractor tore her artery while cracking her neck during a routine visit. According to PEOPLE, 41-year-old Carissa Klundt of Las Vegas claims she was left ...

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a common congenital cardiac condition, usually asymptomatic and discovered at a relatively late age. BAV has an incidence of 0.9% to 2% in the general population 1 or in ...

Aortyx announced today that it brought in $16 million (€13.8 million) to support its bioresorbable aortic patch technology. The company expects the funding to help bring the patch to first-in ...

The heart’s four valves – the mitral, aortic, pulmonary, and tricuspid – open and close to move blood around the body. If a valve becomes damaged or stretched, it can also become leaky.

Introduction Aortic dissection (AD) is a life-threatening vascular disorder whose incidence has risen steadily in recent years (1, 2). Although the pathogenesis of AD is still not fully clarified, it ...

Vertebrobasilar junction fenestration is considered to be a subtype of fenestration of the proximal basilar artery, which has been described only in autopsy cases. The fenestration associated with a ...

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has transformed the treatment of aortic stenosis.1 A series of strategy trials comparing TAVI with surgical aortic valve replacement established TAVI as ...

Aortic stenosis (AS) is a progressive disease characterized by important interindividual variability in the rate of disease progression. The pathophysiology of AS progression is complex and involves ...

Since the advent of advanced radiological modalities such as MRI and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), dissections of cervical arteries are increasingly recognised as a common cause of stroke in ...

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