Whether planned or an emergency having an Aortic Dissection is aways traumatic. Watch and listen to the compelling survivor story of Alex Lima and his wife Lydia.
Aortic dissection surgery is a life-saving, often emergency procedure to repair a tear in the aorta's inner layer. Type A dissections (ascending aorta) require immediate open-heart surgery to replace
Heikki Kovalainen, the former Formula 1 driver, has marked two years since he underwent open heart surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm a life-threatening condition that was discovered during a routin
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