In December, Jeff Green and the Boston Celtics got some bad luck when it was revealed that he needed surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm, a serious heart-related issue that would cause him to miss ...

The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has opened an Aortic Surveillance Clinic for the evaluation and long-term monitoring of patients with enlarged aortas, or aortic aneurysms, for whom surgery ...

Hospital: Cedars-Sinai is based in Beverly Grove. Beverly Grove-based Cedars-Sinai Health System last month took two steps to boost some of its cardiac care programs. The local health care giant ...

Awareness of the clinical significance of thoracic aortic aneurismal disease has increased in recent years. As diagnostic tools have improved our ability to identify aortic pathology, surgical ...

They are more common than people may think. We talked to experts about the risks, symptoms and treatments By Dani Blum The soccer journalist Grant Wahl collapsed and died suddenly while covering the ...

(AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars defensive lineman Rodney Gunter is stepping away from football because of an enlarged aorta. Gunter, who had been placed on the team’s non-football injury list at the start ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Boozman, who underwent emergency heart surgery to fix a torn aorta in 2014, will have a follow-up surgery Tuesday in northern Virginia. The Republican from Rogers said ...

They are bound by their hearts. That might sound like a corny way to describe it. But, literally, it's true. Four current and former NBA players who have had heart surgery communicate with each other ...

The medical condition that took the life of actor Alan Thicke is not common, and accurate diagnosis often comes too late, medical experts say. The 69-year-old actor famed for his fatherly role in the ...