A CT scan provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is ...

A “fit and healthy” woman, Marie Anne August, experienced a “ripping” and bubbling” feeling in her chest. The 45-year-old was ...

The weakened sections of the aortic wall may become unable to support the force ... Therefore, your doctor needs to look at pictures (x-rays, CT scan) of your aneurysm and graft on a regular basis.

Hiren Parekh, a Yale junior and Saxony Lutheran alum, presented research on gender disparities in Type A aortic dissection at ...

Abdominal aortic aneurysms affect around 1.1 million people ... blood tests (to check for an infection), and imaging tests such as CT scans, MRIs, and angiograms. Treatment for an aneurysm depends ...

During her doctoral research, Esther Maas investigated the use of new ultrasound techniques to image dangerous aortic ... MRI and CT allow the entire three-dimensional shape of the aneurysm ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, carrying oxygen-rich blood from ...

As Stanislaw Klamann underwent a computed tomography (CT) scan in 2008 after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, the machine spotted an aneurysm – a swelling of the blood vessel – in his aortic artery.