| 1. | Such an injury would sever the inferior vena cava and the descending aorta.
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| 2. | Then, last December, her descending aorta tore while she was loading groceries into her car.
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| 3. | The inferior mediastinum is exposed to the level of the anterior aspect of the descending aorta.
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| 4. | By birth, the dorsal aorta becomes the descending aorta, while the genital ridges form the gonads.
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| 5. | Aneurysms in the ascending aorta may require surgery at a smaller size than aneurysms in the descending aorta.
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| 6. | Instead medical management is the common response to treating and keeping dissections of the descending aorta under control.
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| 7. | The medial surface of the descending aorta and the distal end are also carefully dissected away from the esophagus.
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| 8. | The ligamentum arteriosum connects to the junction between the arch of aorta and the descending aorta in foetal life.
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| 9. | It is often joined by the ligamentum arteriosum ( or patent ductus arteriosus ) where it forms the descending aorta.
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| 10. | Today, said Whittemore, the risk of death in operations on the descending aorta has dropped to 10 percent or less.
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