Dear Doctors: Our mom had an aortic dissection last fall, and she almost died. It happened all of a sudden, and she was in good health. That makes her worry that it might happen again. Can you please ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysms can happen anywhere below the diaphragm. The infrarenal area of the abdomen, just below the kidneys, is one of the most common places to develop an abdominal aneurysm. The ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — February is Heart Month, a time to highlight the importance of good heart health. But for some who suffer from serious cardio conditions such as an aortic dissection, recognizing ...

Sudden death is always shocking, but there was something particularly unsettling about the way actor John Ritter died last week. He suffered what is known as an aortic dissection, an uncommon ...

Dear Doctors: Our mom had an aortic dissection last fall, and she almost died. It happened all of a sudden, and she was in good health. That makes her worry that it might happen again. Can you please ...

The first symptom of aortic dissection is often very bad pain unlike any they've had before. About 10,000 people a year will experience an aortic dissection – a tear in the body’s biggest blood vessel ...

Not every chest pain is a heart attack; sometimes it’s far more deadly. According to the studies published by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), nearly one in three patients with an aortic ...

In a laboratory study in mice, sildenafil, a commonly used erectile dysfunction medication, was found to worsen abdominal aortic aneurysms, indicating additional research may be needed to determine if ...