In July 2022, Allie Cochran will celebrate a special anniversary. Two years ago, on July 18, 2020, 52-year-old Cochran was rushed to the hospital. She ended up having emergency surgery that saved her ...

Risk for mortality from emergency surgical repair of acute aortic dissection may be almost twice as high among surgeons and institutions that perform the lowest volume of operations compared with ...

Aortic dissection is a life‐threatening cardiovascular condition that arises when a tear in the intimal layer of the aorta permits blood to enter the medial layers, resulting in the formation of a ...

Intermountain Health surgeons have achieved a medical milestone for Utah patients by successfully performing the state’s first minimally invasive ascending ...

A beveled aortic hemiarch replacement is a surgical procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection in the ascending aorta and arch of the aorta. This procedure involves removing the ...

Background: Type A aortic dissection (TAAD) is frequently complicated by concurrent coronary artery disease (CAD). This study aimed to evaluate the impact of concomitant coronary artery bypass ...

If you need cardiac surgery in the future, aortic dissection in particular, reach for the moon. Or at least try to schedule your surgery around its cycle. A new study found that acute aortic ...

An aortic dissection is a serious condition in which a tear occurs in the inner layer of the aorta. Blood flows through the tear and into the wall of the aorta. This forces the inner and middle layers ...

Your aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The thoracoabdominal aorta starts after the curve of the cane and extends past the arteries that deliver blood to the stomach, ...

In the small percentage of patients undergoing TAVR who have a preexisting unruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA), there appears to be increased risks of both aortic dissection and cardiac ...