This is an emergency, Conner said. About 50% of people who have an aortic dissection die at home. Of the other 50% who make ...

During a routine test, Johnny's middle school nurse discovered his severe scoliosis, a prevalent symptom of Marfan. This unexpectedly set his family on a path to uncover his underlying diagnosis at ...

A total of 211 consecutive patients were diagnosed with aortic dissection at the General Hospital of the ... hypertension, smoke, drink and Marfan's disease. The comparisons were as follows: age ...

The Stanford group considers: type A (dissection involving ascending aorta) and type B (descending aorta only). 7 Depending on the duration of symptoms until the clinical presentation, aortic ...

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is an inherited disorder that affects the connective tissues and mainly presents in the bones, eyes, and cardiovascular system, etc. Aortic pathology is the leading cause of ...

This paper reports the sequence of events in a patient with Marfan's syndrome who evidently acquired aortic insufficiency secondary to chest trauma and in whom a Hufnagel valve was inserted.

The interesting coincidence of the publication of two similar case reports of Marfan's syndrome in this issue ... and their covert aortic disease was not revealed until they were involved in ...

The 2023 study by Nakamura and colleagues, published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, represents a significant advancement in our understanding of aortic root aneurysm formation ...