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...already starting to count on cardiac CT for what they call a "triple rule-out." Here's a typical situation: a middle-age woman walks in complaining of chest pains but otherwise seems fine. The biggest concerns are that she might be having a heart attack, that her aorta may have developed a tear or that she has a major clot in the blood vessels of the lungs. Any of these could swiftly be deadly. Her electrocardiogram comes back normal, and blood tests indicate no cardiac damage. With no compelling reason to suspect a heart attack, it's hard...
FRESH FROSHAh, prefrosh weekend. All those eager, excited eyes…breathless, blushed faces…pulsing, engorged loins....Yes, it’s nice to have an injection of vigorous youth jammed right into the blocked aorta of our faded ’n’ jaded student body. Like Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, Harvard Yard gasped back to life with a much-needed shot of red folders and romantic idealism...
...mother's teachings inspired me again in the early 1950s, when I designed a graft for replacing a diseased aorta and arteries. I chose the then new synthetic cloth Dacron by touch, just as I had done as a boy. I drew the design on paper next, cut the fabric and finally put the prototype together at home on my wife's Singer sewing machine...
...University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The pain of aortic dissection is often mistaken for that of a heart attack. But if the dissection is detected in time and there's no damage to other organs in the body, surgeons can successfully replace the torn section of aorta with a synthetic graft...
Epps’ wife said her husband went into Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston the Monday before his death to undergo surgery for an aneurysm that was discovered in his aorta...