One of her teammates’ families heard about the symptoms and recognized them, telling McKaiden she may be suffering from a rare condition called MALS, which stands for Median arcuate ligament ...

The median arcuate ligament is a band of tissue shaped like an arc in the lower part of your chest. It passes over the aorta-- a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart. When you have MALS ...

Median arcuate ligament compression occurs in about 10% to 25% of the population and does not cause any symptoms. In a very small number of these individuals, MALS is present. ...

That was suggestive of a rare disorder called median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS), where the connective tissue that anchors the diaphragm to the spine — the median arcuate ligament ...

For people with the condition, an arcuate ligament compresses the celiac artery, which is the main blood vessel that supplies the stomach, liver and spleen. Gillian Neff and Rose Shannon Mar 16 ...