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Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Gregory A. Crooke, MD, is being recognized by Continental Whos Who as a Top Cardiothoracic Surgeon in the field of Medicine and acknowledgment of his exceptional work with the Maimonides Heart & Vascular Institute. Renowned for its ground-breaking heart surgery and vascular surgery approaches, Maimonides Heart & Vascular Institute ranks among the top 1% of hospitals in the US for heart attack and heart failure patien...

EMS crews frequently respond to calls for chest pain where they discover the patient is having an acute myocardial infarction. They may also respond to cerebrovascular accidents where they find the patient suffering acute neurological insult. So what happens when your patient is having chest pain with objective signs of an AMI along with pronounced neurological deficits suggesting an acute stroke? A dissecting aorta can result in a patient having a heart attack, acute heart failure, or cerebrov...

Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Dec. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Gregory A. Crooke, MD, is being recognized by Continental Whos Who as a Top Cardiothoracic Surgeon in the field of Medicine and acknowledgment of his exceptional work with the Maimonides Heart & Vascular Institute.           Renowned for its ground-breaking heart surgery and vascular surgery approaches, Maimonides Heart & Vascular Institute ranks among the top 1% of hospitals in the US for heart attack and ...

Problems, donors can offer a glimmer of hope. what if a donor has a genetic disease? it happens more often than you think and the law is not on the parents side. joining me, two victims of this loophole, tyler blackwell and his mother, rebecca. good morning to both of you. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. thank you for the opportunity. >> rebecca, tylers father was a donor. set up your story and explain exactly what the problem is. >> i used a donor and when tyler was 15, i was able to...

Disorder which is connective tissue disorder that causes spontaneous rupture of arteries and organs. so his journey started off with an aortic dissection back in 2005, which sort of the only analogy the surgeon made to me at the time was the actor john ritter. >> kelly: the tear in the heart. >> the tear in the lining of the aorta. and my husband has an underlying disease that caused his dissection. so our journey continued beyond that. he we want to work one morning and didnt come home for six ...

What we now know -- somebody that has chest pain like that -- you think about the heart being potentially a problem here. this is different. this is not a problem with the heart specifically. theres a major blood vessel that carries the blood away from the heart called the aorta. as you might imagine blood is flowing very fast. high pressure through that aorta. and sometimes you can get a tear in one of the inner layers of the aorta and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aort...

The aorta. and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aorta. >> why does it tear? >> its unclear for sure. there are a couple of main risk factors. one is hypertension, high blood pressure. and that high blood pressure over time can sort of erode the inner layer of the aorta. sometimes people may have a genetic predisposition because the tissue is not as strong as well in that area but usually that hypertension is sort of the main cull plit. >> is it something that can be caught ...

The aorta. and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aorta. >> why does it tear? >> its unclear for sure. there are a couple of main risk factors. one is hypertension, high blood pressure. and that high blood pressure over time can sort of erode the inner layer of the aorta. sometimes people may have a genetic predisposition because the tissue is not as strong as well in that area but usually that hypertension is sort of the main cull plit. >> is it something that can be caught ...