The aorta in the middle shows many more larger plaques. 中间的大动脉显示更多、大的斑块。
This is about as normal as an adult aorta in America gets. 这是美国正常成人的大动脉。
Put down that jelly doughnut and look carefully at this aorta. 放下手头上的东西,认真观察这张大动脉图片。
aorta aortae
[ noun ] the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries <noun.body>
Aorta \A*or"ta\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to lift, heave.] (Anat.) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
Note: In fishes and the early stages of all higher vertebrates the aorta divides near its origin into several branches (the aortic arches) which pass in pairs round the [oe]sophagus and unite to form the systemic aorta. One or more pairs of these arches persist in amphibia and reptiles, but only one arch in birds and mammals, this being on the right side in the former, and on the left in the latter.
The aorta emerges from the left ventricle _ the heart's main pumping chamber _ passes upward and arches over the top of the heart, then passes down behind the heart and into the abdomen.
Stenosis of the aorta is a constriction of the main artery pumping blood from the heart and can be corrected by surgery.
The 77-year-old comedian who starred in one of television's biggest all-time hits, "I Love Lucy," died here April 26 of a ruptured aorta, a major blood vessel, eight days after emergency open-heart surgery.
Papandreou flew to London on August 25 for treatment of a narrowing of the aorta, the main blood vessel carrying blood from the heart.
The 77-year-old comedian died Wednesday of a ruptured aorta, the main heart artery, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she was recovering from last week's emergency heart surgery.
He underwent surgery to correct an aneurysm, or weak spot, in his aorta, the body's main artery.
People with the disorder can currently be helped by surgery to replace part of the aorta with a dacron tube, Pyeritz said.
A medical bulletin issued by the government press office Friday said the 69-year-old premier, who flew to London on Thursday, would have additional tests to assess the extent of constriction in the aorta, the main artery that pumps blood to the heart.
The cow-tissue device will for the first time permit surgeons to implant tissue valves in patients where the base of the aorta is relatively small, a spokeswoman said.
His aorta was about to blow out like an old inner tube. Surgery cost him six weeks in a hospital and a month at home.
Miss Ball died Wednesday of a ruptured aorta, eight days after having heart surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
As Dr Hurt might quip, he aorta know better.
But the stakes escalated last year when he was hospitalized because of a weakness in the aorta, the main artery carrying blood from the heart.
Although the replaced portion of Miss Ball's aorta did not apparently fail, the entire artery was in poor condition when she was operated upon, said Dr. Robert Kass.