Dr. Ashok Kumar Coimbatore Jeyakumar explains the warning signs, risk factors, treatment and prevention of aortic dissection.

US Senator Lindsey Graham, 71, Republican from South Carolina, died on Saturday night, hours after returning to the United States from an official visit to Ukraine. According to a preliminary report ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with American Heart Association's volunteer president Dr. Manesh Patel about aortic dissection, the preliminary finding of what led to Sen. Lindsey Graham's death. Preliminary ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s cause of death Saturday evening was an aortic dissection, according to a Washington, D.C., medical examiner, following the South Carolina Republican’s office saying he died ...

Thoracic aortic dissection occurs when the intima of the aorta becomes compromised and “tears” or “dissects” a new layer that fills with blood between the intima and the media. This “false lumen” can ...

The aortic tear that likely caused the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham is a medical emergency that can rapidly kill. The aorta is our largest artery, like a highway that arches up from the heart ...

Sometimes the aorta—the largest blood vessel in our bodies—can tear, allowing blood to flow between layers of the aortic wall. This dissection can block blood from flowing to other parts of the body, ...