Upon arriving at the hospital, Dennett underwent a CT scan which found he had "a dissection of the aorta," he wrote on the blog. "The lining of the main output vessel carrying blood from my heart had ...

Next week, do blood vessels below the heart. - To help with the lab, there are a number of photos and diagrams on the bench. Start your dissection with the heart. Make a medial incision on the ventral ...

If the tear occurs in the first part of the aorta, in the front of the chest, it is called a type A dissection. It can extend ...

After pericardiocentesis, cardiac catheterization demonstrated traumatic dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery with older thrombi, which was then treated by implantation of a ...