SCAD — strikes without warning and is often mistaken for something else because it usually affects relatively young, healthy women in their 40s and 50s. The symptoms are similar to a heart attack, but ...

For years, one vital blood vessel in the body has largely required open-heart surgery, even as less invasive vascular procedures became common elsewhere. That vessel is the ascending aorta — the ...

Dear Doctors: Our mom had an aortic dissection last fall, and she almost died. It happened all of a sudden, and she was in good health. That makes her worry that it might happen again. Can you please ...

Using electrosurgical disruption of the chronic dissection septum to expand true lumen channel and improve stent graft ...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a nonatherosclerotic, nontraumatic separation of the coronary arterial walls and causes acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. Image Credit: ...