Medically reviewed by Anisha Shah, MD Key Takeaways The abdominal aorta carries blood from the heart to organs in the lower body.It splits into the right and left common iliac arteries near the pelvis ...

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 ...

If an abdominal aortic aneurysm is found, treatment depends on the size of the aneurysm, its rate of growth and whether it is causing symptoms. The aorta is a large blood vessel about the size of a ...

The hypogastric artery, also called the iliac artery, provides blood flow to the organs in your pelvis. You have an abdominal aorta, which is a large artery that travels down into your pelvis, where ...

(May 11, 2007—ORLANDO, FL)—Using catheter techniques perfected in the arteries of the heart, interventional cardiologists are successfully treating chronic mesenteric ischemia, a condition akin to ...

Adam Taylor is affiliated with The Anatomical Society. American journalist Grant Wahl, who died while reporting on a match during the 2022 Qatar World Cup, is said to have suffered from a ruptured ...