A new study from a Northwestern trauma surgeon found that up to 34% of critically injured patients who show up at a hospital ...

1 w9 The vast majority of coarctations are identified and treated in the first year of life and adult presentation is becoming less frequent. Coarctation of the aorta accounts for approximately 7% of ...

ANEURYSMS of the thoracic aorta may be of diverse etiology. Atherosclerosis, syphilis, medial degeneration, trauma and occasionally sepsis have been implicated. 1–4 The present case represents a ...

We have been in a deep freeze for the past several weeks and people are asking, how do the honey bees survive these frigid ...

Polly Abrey, a Croydon teacher, has reunited with the paramedics who saved her life after a life-threatening tear in her ...

One of the most common congenital cardiac anomalies is coarctation of the aorta (CoA). It accounts for 4%–6% of all congenital heart defects. A CoA case surviving into adulthood may result in ...

A local teenager is on the road to recovery after being diagnosed last summer with a rare condition that has no cure. The ...

Mansur Ball-Bey was shot and killed in 2015 by a St. Louis police officer. A jury didn't accept the police version of events.

First-time parents Callie and Jonathan Pearson were already experiencing a whirlwind of emotions when they found out they were expecting a baby girl in February. But a diagnosis would shock their ...

In a multicenter, retrospective review of patients admitted with intact and ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), thoraci ...