Surgery, especially cardiac surgery, is still a male domain. Until a few years ago, there was not a single female head of cardiac surgery in Germany. “But the picture is changing,” says Dr. Deniz.

Aortic aneurysms — dangerous bulges in the body’s main artery, the aorta — are becoming increasingly common as more people ...

Aortic dissection is one of the most lethal conditions affecting the aorta in which blood enters the layers of the aorta ...

1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China 2Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical ...

The TRIOMPHE study is a prospective, multicenter, three-arm trial designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of the NEXUS Aortic Arch Stent-Graft System in patients with aortic arch ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE: EW) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR ...

These reactive oxygen species can damage cells and are found in important disease states, such as high blood pressure and aortic aneurysms. Aortic aneurysms are balloon-like swellings of the body ...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) today announced the launch of its latest surgical risk calculator designed for patients undergoing ascending aorta and aortic root surgery, with or without ...

Lucknow: Doctors at a private hospital gave a new lease of life to an 18-year-old boy diagnosed with a combination of two serious heart conditions: aortic dissection and ascending aortic aneurysm.

People may feel a pulse in their abdominal aorta, a large artery that runs through the stomach area. People may feel pulsing in the stomach during pregnancy or when pressing on the abdomen.

Hershey Medical Center is the first hospital in central Pennsylvania to perform a groundbreaking, minimally-invasive surgery for complex aortic aneurysms– life-threatening conditions often ...