The other aorta was solid it looked like gristle that had been discarded at a barbecue.
One patient bled to death when the chemical was injected into the aorta instead of the esophagus.
He was hit in the left side of his chest with the bullet damaging his lung and aorta.
"The bulge in my aorta was five times the size and it burst on the operating table, " he said.
The endograft was inserted into an artery near the top of the leg and threaded through the body into the aorta.
Dr Mark Waller, the club's doctor, said the manager's chest pain had been caused by a dissection of the descending aorta.
It will simulate the hidden injuries, ones that involve a torn aorta, a bruised kidney or a brain jostled inside a skull.
The CT scan lasts about 15 minutes, during which time images of the heart and surrounding vasculature (arteries, veins, aorta) are taken.
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He asked Oz how he would know if plaque was building up in his heart and turning the aorta into an inflexible tube.
Edwards also bought a company called Embrella, which makes a filter that can be placed in the aorta in order to catch material.
In an abdominal aortic aneurism, the aorta swells like a balloon.
Although aneurysms can occur in the chest (the thoracic variety killed actor John Ritter last year), 90% of the time they occur in the abdominal aorta.
In the procedure, a catheter system, guided by ultrasound was inserted into an artery in the leg then threaded up through the aorta and into the coronary arteries.
It turned out the cough was a temporary nuisance but nurses discovered a real threat: Lee's blood pressure was creeping up, a risk to his healing aorta.
California's only heart museum, based in Palm Springs, is planning to add an extension shaped like an anatomically correct heart, complete with a lift rising through the aorta.
In Kent's aorta model most of the tears are transverse, or across the artery, in a section called the isthmus, and they start on the intima, or the inner layer of the aorta.
Tests carried out at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and at the cardiothoracic unit at Broadgreen showed that the 54-year-old had a problem known as dissection of the aorta, which required 11 hours of emergency open-heart surgery.
He described three of the fatal stab wounds to Ronald Goldman: two gashes to the chest that cracked through a rib and punctured Goldman's right lung and a third that hit the aorta, the major artery leading from the heart.
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