For example, Framingham Heart Study researchers reported that visceral, not subcutaneous, fat was associated with calcium deposits, a marker for atherosclerosis, in the body's main artery, the aorta.
Flow measurements within the ascending aorta, main pulmonary artery, and right/left pulmonary arteries of normal volunteers (N = 10) were acquired at 3T and analyzed using a conventional FCFE sequence and a CVX sequence with either higher spatial resolution or higher temporal resolution.
The heart consists of one or more pairs of atria (auricles), which receive oxygenated blood from the gills and pump it to the ventricle, which pumps it into the aorta (main artery), which is fairly short and opens into the hemocoel.
The decision to proceed with palliative treatments was taken within the context of a multidisciplinary team meeting and full expert review based on patient's wish, co-morbid disease, clinical metastases, distant metastases, M1 nodal metastases, T4-tumor airway, aorta, main stem bronchi, cardiac invasion, and peritoneal disease.
The sites where blood samples were obtained were as follows: (1) SVC: two centimeters distal to the orifice of the SVC; (2) pulmonary artery (PA): in the main pulmonary artery; (3) aorta: at the root of the ascending aorta (oxygen saturation (SO2) of the left atrium (LA) was also measured in IVC-CA); and (4) IVC: distal to the tip of ECMO drainage cannula.
The blood flows into the pump, which pumps it through another tube into the aorta, the main vessel that feeds the rest of the circulatory system.
Buildups of fatty deposits in the aorta, the main artery leaving the heart, can touch off strokes if globs break off and drift to the brain.
He suffered a nearly severed aorta, the main artery leading to the heart, as well as a broken neck and fractures of the wrist, leg and ribs.
The device is used to strengthen the aorta, the main blood vessel that comes from the heart, as it passes through the abdomen.
The aorta, the main artery leading from the heart, is a common site; a burst aneurysm there can kill almost instantly.
