A “fit and healthy” woman, Marie Anne August, experienced a “ripping” and bubbling” feeling in her chest. The 45-year-old was ...

Acute aortic regurgitation can cause acute heart ... When the carotid artery is involved in the ascending aortic dissection, symptoms of carotid artery dissection may occur which include headache ...

Despite similar symptoms, the treatment for a heart attack is very different than what a person having an aortic dissection will need, and that's part of what makes aortic dissections so deadly ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, carrying oxygen-rich blood from ...

Symptoms of acute bronchitis include ... of an artery breaks off and blocks a blood vessel in the heart. Acute aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition in which a tear develops in ...

Aortic dissection can also occur following any aortic surgery and is more common in aortas that have already enlarged (aortic aneurysm). Symptoms include: sudden, severe chest, back, or abdominal ...

As the disease progresses, symptoms of heart failure eventually ... The most common causes of acute aortic dissection include bacterial endocarditis, aortic dissection and blunt trauma-induced ...

In this randomized clinical trial, the use of ketorolac in patients with Acute Type A Aortic Dissection (aTAAD), was not ...

Hiren Parekh, a Yale junior and Saxony Lutheran alum, presented research on gender disparities in Type A aortic dissection at ...