Introduction Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a relatively rare but much-feared clinical presentation which has a high mortality, particularly if definitive treatment is delayed. A combination of ...

A hospital trust has apologised after failing to properly diagnose a “happily married” woman who was “living life to the full” when she collapsed.

Aortic dissections and aneurysms remain clinically challenging entities. Over the past several years, concepts in the management of thoracic aortic disease have slowly evolved and incrementally ...

Objective— Recent studies suggested the occurrence of phenotypic switching of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) during the development of aortic aneurysm (AA). However, lineage-tracing studies are ...

Abstract Introduction: Aortic aneurysm is the most life-threatening complication in Marfan syndrome (MFS), a connective tissue disorder caused by mutations in fibrillin-1 gene. We have previously ...

The aorta represents a complex organ system which begins in the aortic ring adjacent to the aortic root with the origin of the two major coronary arteries, and ends at the iliac bifurcation. The ...