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 ...

Philosophy Professor Daniel Dennett was rushed to the hospital from the Medford campus n an ambulance in late October. On Nov. 3, he posted an entry in his online blog describing his condition. Upon ...

Dennis Vaughan made one request as doctors rushed him into surgery to repair a life-threatening tear in his aorta: He asked them to try to avoid cutting his beard. Vaughan, 74, has been playing Santa ...

After the birth of her third child, Nadia Lappa, 37, marvelled at how easily she was recovering compared to her previous pregnancies — until she suffered an unusual type of heart attack while visiting ...

For the first time, the study will investigate the optimal antiplatelet therapy for spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), a distinct form of heart attack that primarily affects women. The ...

Healthy, young and pregnant women can suffer severe and deadly heart attacks for different reasons. Approximately one-third of heart attacks in women younger than 50, and the leading cause of ...

In rare cases, the aorta — our largest blood vessel — can tear and burst, causing an aortic dissection. An MD in Boston says it's "among the scariest" issues ER doctors encounter. It's rare, but some ...