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Total Aortic Repair for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Complicated by Malperfusion or Symptomatic Branch Vessel
Nisal K Perera1, Sean D Galvin2, Mark Brooks3
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Australia.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|May 24, 2016
Abstract:
Malperfusion or persistent perfusion of the false lumen with acute type A aortic dissections is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. We describe our experience with total aortic repair in patients with acute type A dissection with recurrent or ongoing branch ischemia, true lumen collapse, or rapid dilatation of a false lumen after initial surgical repair.
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