The ascending aorta continues upward to form the aortic arch, where the oxygenated blood supply to your head originates. The aorta continues on down to the descending aorta that further supplies blood ...

While ascending aortic dissection is a surgical emergency, a descending aortic dissection can be treated medically in most cases. There are two classification systems used to describe thoracic ...

While ascending aortic dissection is a surgical emergency, a descending aortic dissection can be treated medically in most cases. Type I: Dissection originating in the ascending aorta extending a ...

The aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The thoracoabdominal aorta starts after the curve of the cane and extends past the arteries that deliver blood to the stomach, ...

A circumflex RAA also causes a vascular ring, by echo showing RAA branching pattern and a thoracic descending aorta ... At the junction between the ascending aorta and the transverse arch there ...

MRI was used to measure the diameter of the ascending and descending aorta, and to ascertain whether a bicuspid aortic valve (a defect associated with aortic aneurysm) was present. The ...