Acute ischemic stroke, aortic dissection, and hypertension are among key risk factors associated with concomitant cervical ...

Though aortic dissections—in which the inner layer of the body’s central blood vessel tears—are rare, affecting around three out of every 100,000 people per year, they carry a disproportionately high ...

Arterial dissection occurs in just 0.005% of women who are hospitalized during pregnancy or shortly thereafter, according to nationwide numbers that also provide a snapshot of noteworthy risk factors.

Several published reports have improved our understanding of the benefits and limitations of endovascular technology. That the natural history of the dissected aorta can be altered with an endoluminal ...

Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] On November 14, 2006, my husband received a shocking ...

Angiogenesis inhibitors showed no increased risk of arterial dissections or aneurysms in metastatic colorectal cancer patients. The study involved 34,733 patients, with 195 cases matched to 1950 ...