Aortic regurgitation occurs when blood leaks back into the left ventricle due to a leaky aortic valve. This is a type of valve disease in the heart. Aortic regurgitation can lead to some heart ...

Offspring of hypertensive pregnancies also had smaller occipital and parietal vessels, higher aortic intima‐media thickness, and lower retinal arteriolar‐to‐venular ratio. Some conflicting evidence ...

Objective: Preemptive thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has the potential to improve the prognosis of Stanford type B aortic dissection (TBAD), however it is important to determine whether ...

An aortic stenosis murmur is an unusual sound the heart makes due to a narrowing of the aortic heart valve. The narrowed heart valve restricts blood flow from the heart, which can create a murmur.

The ascending aorta is the first part of the aorta originating at the left ventricle and leading into the aortic arch. The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body. It is an artery that carries ...

Hemorrhagic pericardial effusion, which can complicate into acute cardiac tamponade, may be caused by acute myocardial infarction, aortic dissection, trauma, cardiothoracic surgery, and interventional ...

The digitized images were evaluated, and the lesion area was evaluated by calculation of the proportion of aortic intimal surface occupied by red stain in each of the three aortic segments using ...

Surgery is still the treatment of choice in infants with an aortic coarctation with a mortality rate of less than 1%. Balloon dilatation should be avoided in children and neonates as it is less ...