Deadly Diarrhea: The Clever Disguise of Aortic Dissection

management of aortic dissection

Intractable Vomiting: A Dissection in Disguise

Aortic dissection describes the formation of a tear in the intima of the aorta, allowing the formation of a false lumen that dissects between the layers of the aortic wall. It is a dangerous disease with mortality shown to be 25-30%. Dissections are categorized per their anatomic location. The most common and simple classification system is the Stanford system which classifies any dissection in...

Acute aortic dissection presenting with primarily abdominal pain: a rare manifestation of a deadly disease.

The objective of this study was to determine the morbidity and mortality of patients with acute thoracic aortic dissections who present primarily with abdominal pain. Nine hundred ninety-two patients (mean age, 62.1 years +/- 14.1; 68% male) encountered from 1996 to 2001 with acute thoracic aortic dissections from the International Registry of acute Aortic Dissection were studied. Patient demog...

A Rare Case of Severe Aortic Regurgitation with Silent Ascending Aortic Dissection

Classically, ascending aortic dissection (AD) presents as sudden, severe chest pain that is tearing type and radiates to the back. Herein, we present a rare case of severe aortic regurgitation with silent ascending AD, which had no chest pain symptoms. The aortic valve apparatus probably masked this AD; therefore, it was not detected by echocardiography and during the surgery.

Aortic Dissection

Aortic dissection is a longitudinal cleavage of the aortic media created by a dissecting column of blood. The term “dissecting aortic aneurysm” has been inaccurately applied to this entity since 1819, when Laënnec first used the term aneurysme dissequant. The term aortic dissection is preferred to dissecting aortic aneurysm because the affected aorta is only rarely aneurysmal. In 1955, DeBakey ...