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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

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

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.

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 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 ...

Aortic dissection: Get details on this ... Sometimes the weakness is from a condition you’re born with that affects the strength or size of your aorta. Marfan syndrome is one example.

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 ...

Many of the men in Amanda Banic's family had Marfan syndrome and some died of aortic dissection. She doesn't have the same characteristics as those with Marfan so doctors were surprised to learn ...