We are familiar with heart attack stroke and cardiac arrest as fatal heart conditions but there are many other conditions ...

Learn about aneurysms, their causes, symptoms, and treatment options to understand this potentially life-threatening ...

You have an abdominal aorta, which is a large artery that travels down into your pelvis, where it splits into your iliac arteries. What Is the Hypogastric Artery, and What Does It Do?

Understanding Aortic Aneurysm: A comprehensive overview of symptoms and treatments. A condition where this large blood vessel weakens and has bulges causing blood spillage into the body.

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MDMedically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Arteries are blood vessels in the body that carry blood away from the heart and throughout the body. There are ...

Pathology With the exception of 2 cases of common-iliac aneurysm, all these cases involved the lower abdominal aorta, and in no case were the renal arteries involved in the aneurysm.

The most common types of aneurysms occur in the brain, chest, and abdomen, but these enlargements can occur in other parts of the body, too. Learn more about the various aneurysm types, and their ...

The so-called ‘thumb-palm’ test may tell if you are at risk of a ballooning artery. But the evidence is far from certain.

Aortic Aneurysm Symptoms An aortic aneurysm happens in the aorta, the main artery that sends blood away from your heart to the rest of your body. Aortic aneurysms are the most common type of ...

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.