The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has opened an Aortic Surveillance Clinic for the evaluation and long-term monitoring of patients with enlarged aortas, or aortic aneurysms, for whom surgery ...

Grace Meyers from Michigan is living with Marfan syndrome. The inherited disorder affects someone's connective tissue, ...

The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, carrying oxygen-rich blood from the heart to every organ and tissue. It begins at the left ventricle, extends upward through the chest to form an ...

Last year, 72-year-old James Floyd felt severe pain in his abdomen. Doctors couldn’t find a problem. Then at a free health screening near his Henderson home, a simple ultrasound test found that his ...

Her husband and their five children call Rosa Wernher "the Energizer bunny" because she is always on the go. For decades, not even her genetically inherited Marfan syndrome could keep her off her feet ...