Marti and Mary Alice Mullins are twins from a tight-knit family in Ashland. In her late 50s, Marti started experiencing strange and painful symptoms. Every time she ate, she became nauseated and would ...

Urgent surgery and preoperative haemodynamic instability strongly predict in-hospital death in native aortic valve ...

A simpler alternative to open heart surgery is gaining popularity, but some find ​their new valves don’t last as long as they ...

Expert perspectives on how multidisciplinary teams, innovation, and long-term care are redefining aortic care.

HOUSTON – Aortic dissection is a rare but catastrophic disorder. According to one Memorial Hermann surgeon, aortic dissection runs in families about 20% of the time. The condition is when the wall of ...

Ascending aortic hemiarch reconstruction offers the same long-term benefits to patients over age 65 with acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) as more complex extended arch reconstruction procedures, ...

Experts at the Baylor Medicine Center for Aortic Surgery at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center specialize in the surgical treatment of complex aortic conditions, including aortic aneurysms, dissections ...

A Bengaluru teenager has successfully undergone a rare surgery to repair a life-threatening aortic aneurysm caused by ...

Until now patients waiting for heart surgery have been told to avoid exercise. But Graeme Harrison is part of a new study in ...

There are three types of bicuspid aortic valves — types 0, 1, and 2. Experts classify these types based on whether the leaflets of the valve have fused to form a ridge. A bicuspid aortic valve is a ...