We spoke with three Principal Investigators (PIs) from the AAA-SHAPE pivotal trial—Dr. Linda Harris, Dr. Caitlin Hicks, and ...

Researchers have demonstrated mechanobiological changes in vascular smooth muscle cells and identified a key ion channel that is involved in the development of abdominal aortic aneurysm. Abdominal ...

Aneurysm growth is not always predictable. Growth can increase the risk of rupture and bleeding into the brain, which can be life threatening. Because of this, people should work with a doctor to ...

A ruptured aortic aneurysm can be fatal, but it’s often possible to treat an aneurysm before it tears open and causes a severe bleeding event. An aortic aneurysm is a bulge that forms somewhere in the ...

Brain aneurysm repair is a surgical procedure used to treat a bulging blood vessel in the brain that’s at risk of rupturing or tearing open. An aneurysm occurs when the wall of a blood vessel becomes ...

Aneurysms are bulges in an artery that can form in any part of your body. If you have an unruptured aneurysm, you may not have any symptoms at all. (Photo Credit: SciePro/Science Source) As aneurysm ...

Ascending aortic aneurysms are a subtype of thoracic aneurysms, which occur in the chest area. They affect thousands of Americans annually and can be life threatening if not monitored. An aneurysm is ...

Researchers investigated whether aspirin can aid in the prevention of intracranial aneurysm rupture by hindering aneurysm growth. The researchers identified 146 patients harboring multiple ...

Coronary aneurysms represent anomalies identified in 0.15–4.9% of patients undergoing coronary angiography. At present there is no uniform definition of this pathology. According to current ...

SUBCUTANEOUS masses may present a problem in differential diagnosis. Aneurysmal dilatation of a localized segment of a vein occurring in the absence of associated varicose veins is a rare phenomenon ...

Aneurysms are a serious health condition, but not all cases require surgery or aggressive treatment. Those that are small and do not cause symptoms may not need treatment but will likely need to be ...