The aorta is the main artery of the body that exits the heart and delivers blood to every organ of our body. I will often see radiologists dictate "tortuous aorta" on my radiology film reports. What does it mean to have a tortuous aorta? That finding is documented when the aorta that curves back and forth as it descends down the trunk of the body instead of passing down in a fairly direct path. Here is a picture below of 94 year old lady who has never been admitted to a hospital. Not once. Not ever. In fact she delivered her children from home. You can see her vertebral bodies down the middle and her heavily calcified and tortuous abdominal aorta whipsawing back and forth as it descends down the body. I think I even see an aneurysm near the bottom as well as what I think are her calcified iliac arteries as well. This is right up there with that crazy case of severe