SCAD — strikes without warning and is often mistaken for something else because it usually affects relatively young, healthy women in their 40s and 50s. The symptoms are similar to a heart attack, but ...

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 severe ...

In patients with ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and no other organ-system abnormalities, the absolute risk of aortic dissection is low but increases with larger aortic sizes, according to ...

Using electrosurgical disruption of the chronic dissection septum to expand true lumen channel and improve stent graft ...

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Despite the common hesitation in such cases especially among heart event survivors, Campbell insists on prioritizing heart ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a typical morning for mom of two, Kristina Auwarter. Exercising, taking care of the kids and then it all took a turn. “I ...

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 ...