Painting/Mapping the Medieval Landscape. A Landscape-archaeological analysis of the medieval landscape around Bruges as depicted by Pieter Pourbus Ghent University
Aortic dissection is a local tear in the aortic wall that leads to a parallel blood flow within the wall, a so-called “false lumen”. The disease is asymptomatic and may result in sudden death if the degraded aortic wall ruptures. Recently, we used high resolution synchrotron imaging to demonstrate that small side branches play an important role in the initiation and propagation of aortic dissections in mice. These findings were confirmed in ...