What Is an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm? An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a condition where the lower section of your aorta — in your abdomen — weakens and bulges outward. Your aorta is the ...

An aortic root aneurysm is a bulge in the first section of the aorta, where the artery joins the heart and aortic valve. Treatment for an aortic root aneurysm can help prevent serious complications.

The aorta has four parts: The ascending aorta is the section of the aorta that's connected to the heart. Smaller blood vessels branching off the ascending aorta take blood to the heart ...

Although your aorta is thick and large (running the length of your chest and abdomen), it can still feel the strain of its lifelong workload. Blood is pushed through the main section of the aorta ...

The Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (CTVS) at AIIMS Bhopal has successfully completed a complex surgery on a 60-year-old farmer from Sagar district suffering from a life-threatening ...

An ascending aortic aneurysm is one where there is bulging and weakening of a section of the aorta before it curves into the aortic arch. Hemopericardium means that there was blood found in the ...

The pathological sections of the aneurysms in these 2 cases ... all these cases involved the lower abdominal aorta, and in no case were the renal arteries involved in the aneurysm.

She had an aortic dissection, meaning her aorta ... As soon as Leung finished, Fricke performed a cesarean section. “I asked her if she was having a boy or a girl, and she told me it ...

An ascending aortic aneurysm happens when the bulge is located in the section of the aorta that is close to the heart, right where it begins to climb out of the lower left pumping chamber.

Aortic aneurysms are rare, doctors said, but more common than people may think. Between 1 to 2 percent of the U.S. population is prone to developing them, said Dr. Eric Roselli, a cardiovascular ...