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Key facts
- Specialty
- Vascular surgery , cardiothoracic surgery , emergency medicine , interventional radiology
- Symptoms
- severe chest or back pain , vomiting, sweating , lightheadedness
- Complications
- Stroke , mesenteric ischemia , myocardial ischemia , aortic rupture
- Usual onset
- Sudden
- Risk factors
- High blood pressure , Marfan syndrome , Loeys-Dietz syndrome , Turner syndrome , bicuspid aortic valve , previous heart surgery , major trauma , smoking
- Diagnostic method
- Medical imaging
- Prevention
- Blood pressure control, not smoking
- Treatment
- Depends on the type
- Prognosis
- Mortality without treatment 10% (type B), 50% (type A)
- Frequency
- 3 per 100,000 per year
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
37,917 papers- Acute aortic dissection: evidence, uncertainties, and future therapies.European heart journal · 2023
- [Aortic dissection].Revue medicale de Liege · 2018
- Aortic Dissection.Anesthesiology clinics · 2022
- Epidemiology of aortic dissection.Seminars in vascular surgery · 2021
- Aortic Dissection: Diagnosis.Cardiology clinics · 2025
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- AoDissekt scheme StanfordB.png
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- health specialty
- vascular surgery
- Commons category
- Aortic dissection
- anatomical location
- aorta
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:0080685
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C50461
Sources (6)
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