A CT scan provides valuable information about your aorta, such as the location and size of an aneurysm or dissection. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is ...

This bulge in the aorta is called an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA ... most often, however, an aneurysm is found during a medical test such as a CT scan or ultrasound. Over time, vascular disease, ...

Eight patients died, but none of the deaths were related to abdominal aortic ... as an aneurysm shrinkage of ≥ 5 mm; both were compared with the measurements on the former CT scan.