Learning that your baby has coarctation (pronounced ko-ahrk-TAY-shun) of the aorta can be a scary time for any parent, and you likely have many questions about what this means for your baby and their ...

What Is an Aortic Dissection? An aortic dissection is an emergency with your aorta, which is the largest blood vessel in your body and the main artery that takes blood from your heart to the rest of ...

Sports reporter Grant Wahl died of a rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium — an accumulation of blood in the sac around his heart — his wife, Dr. Céline Gounder announced on ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I consider myself to be in good health. I work out several times a week, but recently I began experiencing episodes of shortness of breath after going up and down the stairs in my ...

When we talk about heart health, conditions like heart attacks and strokes usually grab all the attention. But quietly sitting in the background is another serious and potentially deadly issue—an ...

Aortic stenosis, also known as aortic valve stenosis, is a type of heart valve disease in which the heart’s aortic valve narrows, preventing it from opening fully. This interferes with regular blood ...