When you feel sudden severe chest or upper back pain, it's easy to assume what's happening is a heart attack. It could be, but it could also be an aortic dissection -- a condition that can be ...

The symptoms of an aortic dissection and an aortic aneurysm can resemble each other. Both conditions are associated with sudden chest or upper back pain that spreads, shortness of breath ...

The narrow part of the aorta is typically located in the upper body. It can lead to high blood pressure in the head and upper body and low blood pressure in the legs and lower body. Coarctation ...

An obvious pulsating mass in the upper abdomen was present on physical examination of all aortic aneurysms in this series. In 1 patient with an iliac aneurysm, this was most easily palpated on ...

Branches of the aorta carry oxygenated blood to all parts of the body. The brachial arteries perform this function for the upper limbs. Brachial artery anatomy makes it very useful for various ...

In each case the obstructing lesion was localized and situated proximally at the aortic arch. Symptoms were present only in the affected upper extremity and sometimes were out of proportion to the ...