When we think of heart-related emergencies, we often picture heart attacks or strokes. But there’s another silent yet life-threatening condition that gets very little attention- aortic aneurysm.

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...

Background Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) has good modern results, but large multicentre longitudinal data on outcomes, especially hospital resource utilisation through childhood and adolescence, are ...

Aortic aneurysms are a common vascular disease in Western populations that can involve virtually any portion of the aorta. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are much more common than thoracic aortic ...

The plaque and lipid deposition of aortic arch and aortic sinus was quantified by staining sections with hematoxylin–eosin (H&E) and Oil-red O, respectively. The macrophage and the smooth muscle cell ...

Calcific Aortic Stenosis in the Elderly: A Brief Overview Neil Sawhney, MD, Alborz Hassankhani, MD, PhD, Barry H. Greenberg, MD Disclosures Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2003;12 (3) Management ...

The time to replace the valve is, therefore, just before that happens. In this issue of Circulation, Borer and colleagues 1 offer evidence that they have found “just the right moment” to recommend ...

Camila Londono-Obregon; Mark Fogel Disclosures Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2012;10 (12):1497-1516.

Objective Determine whether associations between bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) phenotypes, valve disease and aortopathy differ between sexes.Methods 1045 patients with BAV (76.0% men, n=794) from two ...

It is difficult to know exactly what to make of Kavanaugh’s drift to the right because he remains an intellectual lightweight who struggles to articulate and defend his views with any coherence.

The last time the Open was held at Oakmont in 2016, the 488-yard, par-4 first hole ranked as the most-difficult hole on the course, playing to a stroke average of 4.451—nearly half a stroke over ...