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Ectatic Thoracic Aorta

expanding abdominal aorta.
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An artery carrying blood away from the heart
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The function of the thoracic aorta is to carry oxygenated blood from the arch of the aorta to the iliac arteries.
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The aorta is first called the thoracic aorta as it leaves the heart, ascends, arches, and descends through the chest until it reaches the diaphragm (the partition between the thora...
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It's a segment of the descending aorta that starts just after the aortic arch and ends as it passes through the diaphragm (after the diaphragm, the next segment is called the abdom...
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Ectatic Thoracic Aorta

Thoracic aortic aneurysm - Cedars-Sinai
Enlargement of the aorta may be only mild in degree (ectasia). When a weak area of your thoracic aorta expands or bulges, it is called a thoracic aortic ...
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Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms - Circulation
“Ectasia” is formally defined as dilatation of a vessel, but commonly radiologists use the term to describe a tortuosity of the thoracic aorta that often occurs with ...
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Ectatic thoracic aorta | Radiology Case | Radiopaedia.org
CXR demonstrates a markedly elongated and ectatic thoracic aorta, with distortion of the oesophagus demonstrated on barium swallow.
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