Aortic dissection is a medical emergency that requires immediate treatment.

A simple "thumb palm test" may indicate whether someone has an ascending aortic aneurysm, or a potentially fatal ballooning of a large artery in the heart, researchers say, suggesting the test be ...

A Yale study has found that a self-conducted test involving the thumb and palm of one hand could help alert thousands of people each year to their risk of having a hidden aortic aneurysm. Aortic ...

A simple thumb test can help indicate whether a person is harboring a hidden aortic aneurysm — which can prove fatal if left undetected and untreated, new research reveals. The self-conducted test, ...

BOSTON, MA — In patients having a transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR), the presence of high-molecular-weight (HMW) von Willebrand factor multimer defects and a high score on a point-of-care ...

A team from the University's School of Medicine have devised a test that detects the presence of desmosine, an amino acid that diseased aortas release into the blood and urine. They believe this can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are many little health checks people can do at home ― from checking your pulse to breast self-exams. But one that might be ...

4D flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the potential to identify patients with a higher risk of severe complications from aortic degeneration according to a new Northwestern Medicine study ...