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 ...

As seen for other emergent conditions, the number of patients presenting to US hospitals with acute type A aortic dissections dropped during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, although ...

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 ...

This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of how the composition of immune landscape is altered in the aortic wall of diverse types of AD, and opens new avenues for a rational and precise anti-AD ...

Cardiovascular surgeon Meghana Helder, MD, says the Elika device she created was born out of clinical necessity. Cardiac surgeons treat acute type A aortic dissections to address a life-threatening ...

When you feel sudden severe chest or upper back pain, it's easy to assume what's happening is a heart attack. It could be, but it could also be an aortic dissection -- a condition that can be severe ...

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 ...

When Earlie Smith, then 39, woke on October 15, 2023, she felt intense heartburn. She ate something and took an over-the-counter heartburn medication, but the sensation never dissipated. Soon, the ...

Evidence-based recommendations on aortic remodelling hybrid stent insertion for acute type A aortic dissection. This involves inserting a stent with material sewed on one end into part of the aorta.

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 ...

The current recommendation in surgical guidelines is for elective repair of thoracic aortic aneurysm if the maximum diameter of the descending aorta is ≥5.5 cm; however, researchers have shown that, ...