BACKGROUND: There is limited evidence of the relationship between aortic and iliac calcification and aortic events (aortic dissection or aneurysm rupture) and major adverse limb events (MALEs; ...

Aortic aneurysm is one of the most dangerous yet least understood vascular diseases. It develops silently, without early symptoms, and often reveals itself only when it becomes life-threatening.

A 60-year-old man survived a life-threatening aortic arch aneurysm after timely diagnosis and minimally invasive TEVAR ...

The arterial vasculature is the second most frequently calcified structure in the human body after the skeleton. Calcification of the aorta and aortic valves occurs in most individuals in westernized ...

Bicuspid aortic valve affects up to one in 50 people, but many don't know they have the heart defect until symptoms appear in ...

Ed Shope of Warminster was at his vacation home in Jim Thorpe last August for a gathering to celebrate his granddaughter’s birthday. He had been trying to ignore discomfort in his upper abdomen for a ...

Former factory manager Lionel needed to make crucial lifestyle changes ...

Bicuspid aortic valve affects up to one in 50 people, but many don't know they have this congenital heart defect until symptoms appear in middle age ...

Doctors say up to one in 50 people are born with a bicuspid aortic valve which needs regular checks - but many are not diagnosed until middle age ...

Today’s column is the second in a series about major risk factors for heart attacks. A majority of Americans eventually develop artery-damaging hypertension. High BP is called “the silent killer” ...