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Published on: September 14, 2009
Chronic Stanford type A aortic dissection
Giuseppe M Raffa1, Michele Pilato, Alessandro Armaro
1aDepartment for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation Unit bDepartment of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services, Radiology Service, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (IsMeTT), Palermo, Italy.
Abstract:
: Chronic evolution of type A acute aortic dissection is not frequently observed in untreated patients because of the high mortality rate. Chronic aortic dissection is usually asymptomatic and may be incidentally discovered following an asymptomatic acute dissection. The life expectancy in these patients is prolonged by graft replacement therapy when the aortic diameter exceeds 55 mm. We report a case of a paucisymptomatic 78-year-old woman in whom chest X-ray revealed a right calcified mass.
