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The Medical Treatment of Dissecting Aortic Aneurysms
New England Journal of Medicine, 1972Abstract Medical treatment of a group of 33 patients with dissecting aortic aneurysms resulted in 17 survivors (52 per cent) with a mean follow-up period of 43 months. In-hospital survival was influenced favorably by the presence of a subacute or chronic dissection (onset of symptoms 14 days or longer before presentation for treatment) although long ...
Charles A. Sanders +6 more
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Medical malpractice litigations involving aortic dissection
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2022Medical malpractice litigation arises when a discrepancy exists between a patient's expectation of acceptable medical care and the care the patient receives. Aortic dissection is a frequently misdiagnosed and often-fatal condition. The purpose of this study was to characterize trends of medical malpractice litigations arising from aortic dissection ...
Ashwin Palaniappan, Frank Sellke
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Keeping dissection alive for medical students
Anatomical Sciences Education, 2009AbstractTraditional dissection teaching is being reduced in a number of medical schools, particularly in the United Kingdom. In response to this, 12 medical students from Warwick University, UK, traveled to the Island of Grenada for an intensive extracurricular dissection course at St. George's University.
Daniel Emlyn-Jones, James Chambers
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Attitudes of medical and dental students to dissection
Clinical Anatomy, 2003AbstractGuy's, King's, and St. Thomas's School of Medicine encourages students to learn anatomy from human dissection. Today, there is a worldwide move of anatomy‐based teaching away from dissection to prosection. This study investigates how attitudes toward dissection vary with gender and ethnicity.
Snelling, J, Sahai, A, Ellis, H
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Aortic dissection: medical, interventional and surgical management [PDF]
Heart, 2016 ### Learning objectives After reading this article, the readers should be able to: Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a relatively rare but much-feared clinical presentation which has a high mortality, particularly if definitive treatment is delayed. A combination of aortic wall stress and abnormalities of the medial layer of the aortic wall leads to ...
Jonathan Byrne +2 more
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Medical aspects of acute aortic dissection.
Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, 1991A ortic dissection, with a frequency of more than 2,000 new cases per year in the United States, is the most common catastrophic illness involving the aorta. Since the introduction of definitive surgical therapy by DeBakey et al in 1955,’ and of medical therapy by Wheat et al in 1965,’ there has been a dramatic improvement in the prognosis of patients ...
Valentin Fuster, John H. Ip
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Attitudes to anatomy dissection in an Irish medical school
Clinical Anatomy, 2009AbstractMany studies around the world have looked at the stresses placed on medical students by cadaveric dissection. Although these studies have linked the use of cadavers in medical teaching to stress, some investigations have suggested an association with severe psychological stress and even post‐traumatic stress disorder.
Kevin C. Cahill, Raj Ettarh
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Effects of cadaver dissection on the attitudes of medical students
Medical Education, 1994A study was conducted to determine whether the attitudes of medical students to death and caring changed during the 3 months following exposure to cadaver dissection. All first-year students were invited to complete a questionnaire immediately before their initial cadaver dissection experience, after 6 weeks, and after a further 3 months.
Susan Dovey +3 more
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Acute medical management of aortic dissection
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2018Acute aortic dissection is a life-threatening disease. Current therapeutic guidelines recommend medical therapy with aggressive blood pressure lowering for patients with acute aortic dissection, when they are not indicated for emergency surgery. In particular, patients with aortic dissection without ascending aorta involvement (Stanford type B) are ...
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Dissecting the Role of the Ascyrus Medical Dissection Stent
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2022Michael C. Moon, Sabin J. Bozso
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