Aortic dissection is a life-threatening medical condition in which a tear occurs in the major artery (aorta) that carries ...

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iPhone-based ultrasound detected aortic dissection within minutes, enabling life-saving surgery The patient, with a genetic predisposition, survived despite complications Mobile medical technology ...

Both Adair's father and sister survived, but after her sister's aortic dissection at the age of ... used a point-of-care ultrasound to examine Adair. The device is a probe that plugs into an ...