Aortic dissection is a serious condition that involves a tear in the inner layer of the aorta, the large blood vessel branching off the heart. This tear can lead to life-threatening complications if ...

Aortic dissection is a rare but life-threatening condition characterized by a tear in the aorta's inner layer. This rupture allows blood to flow between the layers of the aortic wall, creating a false ...

Between 1990 and 2019, fatalities from aortic aneurysms increased by 82.1% (Wang Z. et al., 2022). The true incidence of aortic dissection may be underestimated, as many patients die before receiving ...

who suffered a sudden and life-threatening aortic dissection. The device in question was an iPhone ultrasound probe, which enabled doctors to make a rapid and accurate diagnosis in a critical ...

Sara Adair, an iPhone user, was saved from a life-threatening aortic dissection thanks to a point-of-care ultrasound probe that connected to the device. This allowed doctors to quickly diagnose ...

An ultrasound scan is a procedure that uses high frequency sound waves to create a picture of a part of the inside of your body. The ultrasound scanner has a probe that gives off sound waves. The ...

Both Adair's father and sister survived, but after her sister's aortic dissection at the age of ... used a point-of-care ...

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 ...

Computed tomography confirmed the diagnosis of an acute Stanford type B aortic dissection with an entry tear just distal to the origin of the left subclavian artery and progressing caudally to the ...

Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (Y.E.L., S.L., Litao Wang, Y.D., L. Wu, H.C., T.Z., J.L., S.X., L.L., J.G., J.R., Y.Z ...

Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, China. (Y.E.L., S.L., Litao Wang, Y.D., L. Wu, H.C., T ...

What is aortic stenosis in children? Aortic stenosis means that your child has a heart valve that is too narrow or is blocked. The aortic valve is 1 of 4 heart valves that keep blood flowing through ...