Q: I was recently diagnosed with an aortic thoracic aneurysm and scheduled for surgery. What are the risks, and can I expect to live a normal life afterward? A: As difficult as it is to hear the ...

July 9, 2010 (New Haven, Connecticut) — The endovascular repair of a ruptured descending thoracic-aortic aneurysm is associated with "encouraging results," according to a new retrospective study, with ...

Twenty-six case series and one comparative study were identified. The data extracted from 26 case series were for nonruptured TAA alone. In all studies combined, 1,038 patients underwent endovascular ...

The aorta is the largest artery in the human body, supplying branches to all organs and tissues of the body. It has a thick wall of muscle and elastic fibers that allows it to expand and contract with ...

In an important step toward further establishing treatment options for patients with life-threatening aneurysms or trauma involving the aorta, the body's largest artery, the University of Pennsylvania ...

DEAR DR ROACH: My husband will be 83 in September and was recently diagnosed with an ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm measuring 4.8 cm. Five centimeters is when they do something. After hearing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement, those with thoracic aortic aneurysm had ...

Actor George C. Scott, celebrated for his stellar performance in the movie Patton, died on September 22, 1999, because of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. His publicist and friend, Jim Mahoney, said that ...

AS medicine develops, and its progress affords new diagnostic and therapeutic technics, it is fascinating to see the emergence of pathologic entities that have always been present but have not been ...