The part of the aorta in the chest is called the thoracic aorta. The portion further down in your trunk is called the abdominal aorta. An aneurysm is a bulge that forms in the wall of an artery.

An aortic aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in the aorta, which is the body's largest artery — "sort of the trunk of all the blood vessels," said Gounder, who is an infectious disease specialist ...

Mumbai: Mumbai doctors perform a rare Frozen Elephant Trunk technique in a complex surgery to save a patient suffering from a life-threatening aortic condition. The technique involves a ...

SIMS Hospital Chennai performs India's first combined TAVR and FET graft surgery, marking a milestone in cardiac care.

A GRANDMA's life was saved when doctors replaced her artery with a 'frozen elephant trunk' in a groundbreaking op. Jeanette, 70, was in desperate need of surgery, as her aorta - the body’s ...

The tube, bizarrely called a frozen elephant trunk, will be stitched in to replace Jeantte's aorta. Then Amit will take out her faulty aortic valve before sewing in a new one made of bovine tissue.

Chennai: Cardiologists at a city hospital conducted a rare surgery using a special technique — frozen elephant trunk— to treat a man from Myanmar, 55, who had a life threatening rupture in the ...

"Recognising the aorta as an organ puts it on a par with the heart, lungs or brain. This is a big step," says Czerny, Medical Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University ...

The FET procedure involves placing a hybrid graft, a combination of a surgical graft and a stent graft, resembling an ...