Medicina, 2008 Aortic dissection is an acute lesion of the aortic wall accompanied by separation of the media due to rupture or intramural hematoma. The incidence rate of aortic dissection is 5 to 30 cases per million people a year. Acute aortic dissection is a highly lethal cardiovascular emergency with an incidence of 2000 new cases per year in the United States ...
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Diagnosis and clinical management of aortic dissection [PDF]
Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology, 2014 Phillips B Harrington, James E Davies, Spencer J MelbyDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USAAbstract: Aortic dissection is a potentially lethal clinical entity that requires ...
Harrington PB, Davies JE, Melby SJ
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A case of an aortic dissection in a young adult: a refresher of the literature of this "great masquerader" [PDF]
International Journal of General Medicine, 2011 Jérôme Pineault1, Denis Ouimet2, Vincent Pichette2, Michel Vallée21Department of Internal Medicine, 2Department of Nephrology, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal, CanadaAbstract: Aortic dissection is often ...
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Aortic Dissection and Dissecting Aortic Aneurysms
Annals of Surgery, 1988 Operation was employed in the treatment of 546 patients for complications of aortic dissection during the 32-year period of 1956-1988. Current concepts and operative techniques evolved during this period. Fortunately, about half the patients were treated during the latter 4 years, as modern therapy became standardized.
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Aortic Dissection With Cardiac Tamponade in Pregnancy: A Challenging Clinical Scenario [PDF]
, 2023 Aortic dissection is the acute aortic syndrome with the highest mortality, and pregnancy and arterial hypertension are known risk factors. Its association with the perinatal period is a particularly unique and potentially devastating clinical catastrophe
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Aortic dissection simulation models for clinical support: fluid-structure interaction vs. rigid wall models. [PDF]
, 2015 The management and prognosis of aortic dissection (AD) is often challenging and the use of personalised computational models is being explored as a tool to improve clinical outcome.
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Dissecting the epidemiology of aortic dissection
European Heart Journal. Acute Cardiovascular Care, 2021 International ...
Aboyans, Victor, Boukhris, Marouane
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Diagnostic accuracy of mediastinal width measurement on posteroanterior and anteroposterior chest radiographs in the depiction of acute nontraumatic thoracic aortic dissection [PDF]
, 2012 We aimed to explore the diagnostic accuracy of various mediastinal measurements in determining acute nontraumatic thoracic aortic dissection with respect to posteroanterior (PA) and anteroposterior (AP) chest radiographs, which had received little ...
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Conservative management of chronic aortic dissection with underlying aortic aneurysm
Heart International, 2013 Aortic dissection is one of the most common aortic emergencies affecting around 2000 Americans each year. It usually presents in the acute state but in a small percentage of patients aortic dissections go unnoticed and these patients survive without any ...
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Two Cases of an Unusual Childhood Aortic Dissection Resulting in Death
Haseki Tıp Bülteni, 2023 Pediatric aortic dissection is an emergency condition that is difficult to diagnose and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. To draw attention to this issue, we present two male cases diagnosed with aortic dissection because of an autopsy.
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