When blood is pushed out of the heart into the aorta, a frictional force occurs between the flowing blood and the vessel wall. This is important for a type of cell that is located in the vessel ...

A MAN assumed he was suffering from an allergic reaction after feeling a strange ripping in his chest – little did he know he’d be undergoing open heart surgery days later to save his ...

A Southwest Florida couple made a substantial donation to Lee Health Heart Institute after saving his life. Brian Seasholes ...

which occurs naturally with age and diseases like atherosclerosis (buildup of fatty deposits within artery walls). Conversely, a low or narrow pulse pressure is seen with heart failure, aortic ...

Left ventricular chamber enlargement and hypertrophy (increased wall thickness) take place in order to maintain a normal forward cardiac output in chronic aortic regurgitation (Heart’s the Heart ...

Seasholes knows first hand how the heart institute is vital to the health ... If the blood goes through the outside aortic wall, the dissection is often deadly. Seasholes’ wife said in a news ...