Aneurysm occurs when a blood vessel weakens and bulges If this blood vessel is ruptured it can lead to severe internal ...

Australian radio host Kyle Sandilands announced on air yesterday that he has a brain aneurysm and needs urgent brain surgery.

Perhaps the best bedside method to estimate the severity of aortic stenosis is derived from evaluation of the carotid arteries. The phenomenon known as "pulsus parvus et tardus" refers to a weak ...

A catheter is typically inserted in into a femoral artery in the groin and advanced up into the aorta. Ideal positioning of ...

2). A large fusiform aneurysm was found, beginning just distal to the aortic valve and ending just proximal to the innominate artery. The arch was slightly dilated, and the left subclavian artery ...

In a considerable number of patients, however, the aneurysm terminates at or below the innominate artery, permitting repair under normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass conditions with an aortic ...

Diagnosis: Papillary fibroelastoma of the aortic valve in conjunction with coronary artery disease. Management: Surgical excision of the mobile lesion and an end-to-side anastomosis of the left ...

Estimates indicate that a well-established screening programme could prevent up to 100 deaths from abdominal aortic aneurysms each year.