Coloured 3D computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest of a patient with an aortic dissection. The aorta (blue), the body's main artery, is at centre right. An aneurysm is a blood-filled dilation in a blood vessel caused by a weakening of the vessel wall. In a dissecting aortic aneurysm, a tear in the inner wall of the artery causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall. Without surgical repair the condition is usually fatal. | |
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