🧠🫀 May is National Mental Health Month 🫀🧠 At Aortic Hope, we recognize that aortic disease doesn’t just affect the body — it can deeply impact your mental and emotional well-being too. 💙 Experiences like diagnosis, surgery, and recovery can bring on anxiety, fear, or even PTSD. And in our community, those feelings are more common than many realize — and just as important to address as physical health. That’s why we’re sharing this important conversation from AHTV 🎥 feat

🚗💜 Show Your Support Wherever You Go! 💜🚗 At Aortic Hope, awareness doesn’t stop at events — it travels with you! Our Aortic Hope Car Magnets are a simple, powerful way to spark conversations, honor survivors, remember loved ones, and spread life-saving awareness about aortic disease everywhere you drive. ✨ For just a $10 donation, you can: • Turn your car into a moving message of hope • Help raise awareness about aortic dissection & aneurysm • Support Aortic Hope’s educat

💙Join us for Therapeutic Thursday, hosted by community member, survivor, and therapist John Quick. First Therapeutic Thursday, May 21 at 12p ET with guest Molly Thomas. To watch, click HERE. We’re inviting 𝗬𝗢𝗨 to be a guest on our pre-recorded series and share how aortic disease — whether an aneurysm, valve disease, or dissection — has impacted you mentally and emotionally. ✨𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹. ✨𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼

Hello Aortic Hope family, We hope everyone has been well and enjoying some of the sunshine as we enter Spring! As we wrap up this month’s Topic Tuesday series, we want to take a step back and connect the dots across everything we’ve covered. This month focused on understanding aortic aneurysms in different parts of the body and the surgical options used to treat them. Whether you’re a survivor, caregiver, or simply learning more, here’s a clear and simple recap of the key tak

Welcome to another Medical Monday! Today, we are going to be discussing the difference between open versus endovascular treatment options for AAA. As we reviewed in prior weeks, an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a bulging or weakening in the wall of the aorta along the abdominal region. This can become very life threatening very fast as stretching of the aorta puts it at an increased risk for sudden rupture or aortic dissection. As a brief review - major risk factors fo