Sara Adair knows the symptoms of aortic dissections. The hospital analyst's father and sister each experienced the dangerous cardiac condition, when the inner lining of the body's main artery tears ...

The chest radiography may reveal a normal cardiac ... The severity of aortic stenosis is determined by measuring the aortic valve area (AVA) and calculating the pressure gradient between the ...

While pain of an ascending aortic dissection frequently is in the center of the chest radiating to the mid upper-thoracic area, the pain from descending dissection is usually localized to the back ...