Turkish doctors in Ankara performed a groundbreaking operation to reroute a major artery using a cadaver graft, saving a ...

The first branch is the right carotid and does not classify as a RAA branching pattern; one may be fooled into believing this is a left aortic arch with the first branch coursing rightward (see ...

Darren Scott, the beloved South African radio personality, has died after a long battle with cancer. Remembered for his ...

All available blood pressure (BP) recordings postrepair were abstracted from the patient's medical record. Following standard practice at our institution, right arm BP was recorded while seated using ...

An aberrant left subclavian artery was diagnosed in 18.4% of cases, a double aortic arch in 6.1%, and 12.2% had a vascular ring confirmed after birth. Overall, an extracardiac anomaly was present in ...

The Norwood procedure is a type of open-heart surgery for babies born with hypoplastic left ... aorta are too small to pump blood to the body. The Norwood procedure lets the right ventricle pump blood ...

With costochondritis, pain is most commonly noted when touching the ribs left ... (aorta) in the chest may cause rib cage pain. Risk factors include the condition Marfan's syndrome as well as ...

Valves move blood from the heart to the lungs and deliver ... the first few years: Aortic valvular atresia occurs when the flaps of the aortic valve are fused at birth, causing the right ventricle to ...

Patients with systemic sclerosis or Sjögren's syndrome suffer from various inflammatory reactions triggered by the body's own ...

Due to the sudden rupture of the aortic wall, aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition that requires immediate ...