Earlie Smith experienced an aortic dissection. Months later, her brother, Larry Smith, also had one. The same doctor helped ...

a descending aortic dissection can be treated medically in most cases. Type I: Dissection originating in the ascending aorta extending a variable length frequently into the aortic arch and/or ...

There are two classification systems used to describe thoracic aortic dissections: The DeBakey classification: Type I: Dissection originating in the ascending aorta extending a variable length ...

"When aortic dissection is confused with heart disease ... Among other things, they gave Ritter blood thinners, a type of medication that shouldn't be given to someone with internal bleeding.

This is an emergency, Conner said. About 50% of people who have an aortic dissection die at home. Of the other 50% who make ...

Ms Lawrence, whose husband is a type A aortic dissection survivor, added: "We are delighted that she has joined the charity as our first aortic specialist nurse and I am very happy to be working with ...

A CT 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 another ...

In the population of 201 patients with type B aortic dissection who had survived to hospital discharge, post-discharge mortality was high, with one quarter of patients dying within 3 years.

for Acute Aortic Dissection (AAD). Here the authors use propensity score matching (PSM) to adjust for baseline differences and found that VSRR had a higher survival rate compared to ARR.