A CT scan provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is ...

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 ...

A CT provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), is another ...

A heart ultrasound (echocardiogram ... thoracic aortic aneurysm or who has experienced a rupture of an aneurysm or an aortic ...

Aortic aneurysms, known as "silent killers," are increasingly deadly, causing 2 per cent of global cardiovascular deaths ...

The fatal complication of an ascending aortic aneurysm is rupture and/or aortic dissection. The diagnosis of an ascending aortic aneurysm is best made on CT angiography or MR angiography.

Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This ...