On Nov. 3, he posted an entry in his online blog describing his condition. Upon arriving at the hospital, Dennett underwent a CT scan which found he had "a dissection of the aorta," he wrote on the ...

Start your dissection with the heart. Make a medial incision on the ventral surface ... Locate the vessels entering and leaving the heart and the 2 heart chambers - atrium and ventricle. Look at ...

Babies born with otherwise-lethal single ventricle heart defects can gain decades of life from early surgical intervention, but their lives are still fraught with medical complications that ...

The left-hand side pumps oxygenated blood around the body. Each side of the heart consists of an atrium and a ventricle which are two connected chambers. The atria (plural of atrium) are where the ...

If the tear occurs in the first part of the aorta, in the front of the chest, it is called a type A dissection. It can extend ...

A: The aorta is the thick-walled vessel that carries blood from the heart’s left ventricle to the rest ... the aortic wall ...