While more common among men, type A aortic dissection (TAAD) is associated with substantially higher rates of in-hospital mortality among women, according to new data. Women also tend to present with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The mortality rate for women with type A acute aortic dissection remains higher than that for men with the ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) is a catastrophic disease with fatal outcomes. Malperfusion ...

Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This “false lumen” can ...

Sometimes the aorta—the largest blood vessel in our bodies—can tear, allowing blood to flow between layers of the aortic wall. This dissection can block blood from flowing to other parts of the body, ...

The first symptom of aortic dissection is often very bad pain unlike any they've had before. About 10,000 people a year will experience an aortic dissection – a tear in the body’s biggest blood vessel ...

One evening in June 2019, Chowean Johnson woke about 2 a.m. with sharp chest pains. At first, the 46-year-old thought something he ate caused some serious indigestion. But then he grew worried. “It ...

Pregnancy is strongly associated with life-threatening problems in Marfan patients. Herein, we report a case of aortic dissection during pregnancy with a rare combination of the clinical manifestation ...