Aortic Dissection in Marfan Syndrome. An aortic dissection is a complication of an aortic aneurysm. It occurs when a small tear in your aorta causes blood to leak between your aortic wall's inner and ...

Marfan syndrome and pregnancy. Because pregnancy increases the amount of blood in your body, an aorta weakened by Marfan syndrome is at higher risk of a rupture or dissection during pregnancy. If ...

Identical twins with Marfan syndrome receive matching heart surgeries. Pablo and Julio Delcid, twin brothers from New Jersey, share their experience after going for surgery at the same time. Dr ...

Surgical experience in patients with Marfan's syndrome, ascending aortic aneurysm and aortic regurgitation, The American Journal of Cardiology, 36, 3, (338-341), ...

After Parker Anderson was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, dad Evan Anderson tested positive, too. ... His aorta had become weakened due to the condition, and it had swelled up dangerously.

Leader in aortic dissections, Marfan syndrome Dr. George Arnaoutakis saves woman's life after coming to Dell Medical School, Ascension Seton.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has designated allopurinol as the first orphan drug for the treatment of Marfan syndrome, a rare connective tissue disease which has no cure to date. This ...

Exercise benefits the aorta by improving circulation and reducing risk factors like hypertension, but heavy lifting can be ...

In Marfan's syndrome, connective-tissue alterations promote aortic aneurysm and dissection. Despite advances in understanding the causes, treatments are still based on old protocols. The ...

The Marfan Foundation and Baylor College of Medicine are conducting the multicenter Aortic Valve Operative Outcomes in Marfan Patients study (AVOMP) to compare the outcomes of aortic valve-sparing ...

Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of a rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium – an accumulation of blood in the sac around his heart – his wife, Dr. Céline Gounder ...