Each year in the United States, some 45,000 people die from diseases of the aorta and its branches. Acute aortic dissection, a life-threatening event due to a tear in the aortic wall, affects 5 to 10 patients per million population each year, most often men between the ages of 50 and 70; of those that occur in women younger than 40, nearly half arise during pregnancy. The majority of these deaths occur as a result of complications of<unk>  aneurysmal disease
Thoracic aortic aneurysm
Aortic aneurysm
Inflammatory aortic aneurysm
Aortic dissection
Aortic rupture
Aortocaval compression syndrome
Acute aortic syndrome
Coronary artery aneurysm