Health News You Can Use: Saint Luke's Complex Aorta Disease Program

Aorta conditions can be difficult to treat—Saint Luke's offers a multidisciplinary approach that is the only of its kind in the Kansas City metro.

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The aorta is the body’s main artery that carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body.

Conditions like aortic aneurysms and dissections can be life-threatening and require complex and immediate treatment.

This week on Health News You Can Use, Dr. Muzammil Aziz, a vascular surgeon at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute , joins to discuss Saint Luke's complex aorta disease program.

Dr. Aziz explains how their multidisciplinary approach is critical in treating aortic disease, utilizing minimally invasive procedures, surgical approaches and new clinical trials and technologies.