This piece comes from the stern archives and was first published in March 2024.

Professor Czerny, the aorta has recently been considered a separate organ, and you have played a key role in this. So much effort for a thick blood vessel? The aorta can do much more than other blood vessels. You can see this because it is structured differently in each section. And each segment gets sick differently.

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