Aortic dissection is an often fatal but treatable heart condition, and a surgeon with Jefferson Health hopes more people can act if they know what to look out for. The sudden death Saturday of Sen.

An aortic aneurysm occurs when a weak aortic wall stretches, causing it to bulge. An aortic dissection occurs when there’s a tear in the aortic wall, which can be fatal if not treated immediately. The ...

Lindsey Graham, a U.S. Senator from South Carolina who served for 23 years, died suddenly on July 11 at age 71. The preliminary report from the medical examiner found that he suffered an aortic ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham's cause of death Saturday evening was an aortic dissection, according to a Washington, D.C., medical examiner, following the South Carolina Republican's office saying he died ...

Ask any trainee in emergency medicine for a list of rapidly fatal conditions, and it is almost certain that acute aortic dissection (AAD) will be near the top. In acute care medicine, AAD is a ...

Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition caused by a tear in the intimal layer of the aorta or bleeding within the aortic wall, resulting in the separation (dissection) of the layers of the ...

Illustration of a dissection in Fasciculus Medicinae (first published 1491, edition from 1495) (courtesy the New York Academy of Medicine) In a series for the first day of each month, Hyperallergic is ...

A 70-year-old woman with an acute myocardial infarction presented with ventricular fibrillation and SCAD of an obtuse marginal branch of the left circumflex artery (Panel A, bracket). Computed ...

US Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, died on Saturday night from a tear in his artery, according to preliminary findings from a medical examiner. Aortic dissection is rare, and ...