A 68-year-old man with 1 week of bloating and constipation undergoes CT, which reveals Stanford type B aortic dissection ...

A CT scan provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is ...

A 62-year-old man is brought in by ambulance for acute-onset left lower-extremity weakness, numbness, and pain. Read this overview on the diagnosis and treatment of aortic dissection.

Background A 40-year-old man presented with acute chest and back pain, hypertension and anuria. Two years previously he had been diagnosed with acute uncomplicated type B aortic dissection.

She also had a CT scan. Around 6:30 pm, a doctor from the vascular surgery group gave Seppi the results of her CT scan. “He told me I had an abdominal aortic dissection,” Seppi said. “And he told me ...

LITTLE FALLS, N.J., July 7-- Clinicians may miss a substantial number of new abdominal aortic dilations on CT scans, researchers have found. Clinical teams didn't record about 60% of dilations ...

Dr MN Bhat immediately requested an emergency abdominal ultrasound and CT scan, which revealed an abdominal aortic dissection with an aneurysm actively leaking blood into the pelvis.

There have been at least four cases of aortic dissection after use of medications that inhibit cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 5, including the medication sildenafil, according to study authors.