A CT scan provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is ...

Treatment for Aortic Dissection Dr. Glotzbach: Absolutely. So for a type A dissection like we talked about, that's a surgical emergency so those patients go to the operating room and we will replace ...

An independent study found that 50% of patients with aortic dissection under the age of 40 had Marfan’s syndrome. Defects in the aortic wall are found in Ehlers-Danlos, Loeys–Dietz and Turner ...

Some people need emergency surgery for dissections to stop blood leaking between aortic layers. The type of treatment you’ll need depends on your symptoms and the location of the dissection. Aortic ...

While back pain is musculoskeletal, if it becomes persistent, especially if accompanied by abdominal pain or a pulsing ...

Cardiology > Prevention CT for Endovascular Tx; Aortic Dissection Patch; Rape Trial for Denver Cardiologist — Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine by Nicole Lou, Senior ...

In patients with ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and no other organ-system abnormalities, the absolute risk of aortic dissection is low but increases with larger aortic sizes, according to ...

Only three types of imaging studies can identify an aortic dissection, said Azizzadeh, including a CT, MRI or transesophageal echocardiogram. A chest X-ray and an electrocardiogram cannot rule ...

In the study of the aortic dissection-spotting tool—the results of which were presented at the VEITHSymposium last week—researchers applied the deep learning AI to just over 1,300 CT ...

"Stuff got real," Penny said. While he doesn't remember all of it, a CT scan quickly revealed the problem. Penny had a large dissection of his aorta that needed to be repaired immediately. By 4 a ...