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These are potentially lifethreatening abnormalities of the aorta requiring immediate evaluation by the cardiothoracic surgery service. Insuffisance aortique etiologies diagnostic positif. Acute aortic dissection type a repair nuttapon arayawudhikul. An aortic dissection is an emergency with your aorta, which is the largest blood vessel in your body and the main artery that takes blood from your heart to the rest of your body. Aortic dissection an overview sciencedirect topics. Tomodensitometrie helicoidale et dissections aortiques srlf.

The sensitivity of ct scanning for acute aortic dissection was 100% and specificity was 96%. Les tableaux sont exclusivement disponibles en format pdf. Request pdf aortic dissection aortic dissection is a lifethreatening condition due to a tear in the intimal layer of the aorta or bleeding within the aortic wall, resulting in. Clinical features and differential diagnosis of aortic dissection. Pdf summary aortic dissection is defined as the separation of the. Krichenko, the american journal of cardiology, april 1989. Dissecting into the heart of the matter full episode audio for md edition 191. Aortic dissection is a tear in the aortic intima that enables blood to force its way between the other layers of the vessel wall, forming an intimal. Spittell pc, spittell ja jr, joyce jw, tajik aj, edwards wd, schaff hv, et al. However, it is possible that pulmonary embolism first occurs and leads to aortic dissection by the anxiety that it causes in the patient in addition to the pain and dyspnea.

The full text of this article is available in pdf format. Helical computed tomography ct of the aorta and its branches. The aorta is a large artery that carries blood out of your heart. Les syndromes aortiques aigus regroupent les dissections aortiques, les hematomes. The international registry of acute aortic dissection. Pdf summary aortic dissection is defined as the separation of the layers within the aortic wall. Eighteen patients had type a dissections and 32 patients had type b dissections. If you have a dissection of the aorta, it means that blood is leaking outside of the arterial lumen, or interior of the blood vessel.