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Repair of acute descending aortic dissection complicated by visceral ischemia
1Department of Surgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center, California 92354, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 6, 1999
Abstract:
Visceral ischemia is a rare but lethal complication of type III aortic dissection. We report a Marfan patient with such a complication who had a complete resolution of profound visceral ischemia despite a delay in repair of over 48 hours.