Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MDMedically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD The thymus is located in the chest, ...

a type of cancer of the thymus. “I thought I was a dead guy, honestly. Even how she presented it to me because she said she ...

Your aorta is a tube-like structure that resembles a candy cane. The ascending aorta forms the beginning or handle of the cane and originates at the aortic valve. The ascending aorta includes the ...

A group of researchers at the University of Kentucky have found a mechanism that would explain why men develop more aortic aneurysms than women. The work was led by Zhenheng Guo, Ph.D., a ...

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Surprisingly, the thymus has been identified as a secondary source of PTH production. You have full access to this article via your institution. Is thymic PTH secretion, like PTH produced by the ...

The aorta is the main blood vessel that carries oxygen-filled blood from the heart to the rest of the body. It extends from the chest to the abdomen, where it branches (bifurcates) into the iliac ...

Michael Hughes, from Carrickfergus, had never heard about abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) until he got a letter about screening. One in 80 men screened in Northern Ireland has an AAA, but it ...

If you clench your hand into a fist, this is approximately the same size as your heart. It is located in the middle of the chest and slightly towards the left. The heart is a large muscular pump ...

The musician, 41, said he had suffered an aortic aneurysm that put his life in immediate danger. "My aorta ruptured and started to spill blood into my chest cavity," he told Rolling Stone in a ...

As a gifted surgeon, Dr. Joseph William Turek has done ground-breaking work, performing the world’s first co-transplant of heart and thymus tissue, the world’s first partial heart transplant for a ...

This important study provides solid in-vivo evidence that CCR4 regulates the early inflammatory response during atherosclerotic plaque formation. The authors propose that altered T-cell response plays ...