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115/2: 30 Pathogenesis, risk stratification, and management of pregnancy - associated aortic dissection in Marfan syndrome and related connective tissue disorders.

«Aortic dissection in the chest is a life - threatening condition that requires immediate care, usually emergency surgery,» says Matias Hannuksela, medical doctor at the University Hospital of Umeå Heart Centre and author of the doctoral dissertation.

An illustration of an aortic dissection in the length axis (figure A) and in a cross section (figure B).

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Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a life - threatening condition in which blood leaks from the aorta, the major artery that carries blood from the heart to the body.

Aortic dissection, or rupture, is the bursting of an aortic aneurysm and can occur both within the chest (thoracic) and in the abAortic dissection, or rupture, is the bursting of an aortic aneurysm and can occur both within the chest (thoracic) and in the abaortic aneurysm and can occur both within the chest (thoracic) and in the abdomen.

In Sweden, about 400 - 600 people per year are affected by thoracic aortic dissection, a number which is likely higher due to immediate and high mortality and the fact that the right diagnosis is never determined in many caseIn Sweden, about 400 - 600 people per year are affected by thoracic aortic dissection, a number which is likely higher due to immediate and high mortality and the fact that the right diagnosis is never determined in many casein many cases.

Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), an enlargement or tearing of the walls of the aorta in the chest, is, together with abdominal aortic aneurysms, responsible for about 2 % of all deaths in Western countries.

«Acute aortic dissections may be disguised as heart attacks, and we know that the genetic component of TAAD is strong — in about 20 % of patients, it is also found in family members.

Aortic dissection is a tear in the wall of the aorta (the large blood vessel that carries blood from the heart) to the body, causing the inner and middle layers of the aorta to separate (dissect).

Cardiac surgeons are successfully performing more extensive surgical repairs of type A aortic dissection — one of the highest risk operations in cardiothoracic surgery.

«Type A aortic dissection requires emergency surgical repair,» said senior author Ravi K. Ghanta, MD, formerly of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, now with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Through genetic analysis of a family with a history of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified mutations in the LOX gene, a gene associated with the integrity of the arterial wall, in human subjects for the first time.

In the appropriate clinical setting, suspicion for acute aortic dissection should be raised when patients present with findings that have a high specificity and high positive likelihood ratio (hypotension, pulse deficit,...

Massive aggrecan and versican accumulation in thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection.

Last November Hiromi Tsuru, long time voice of Bulma in the Dragon Ball television series tragically passed away due to aortic dissection, a «serious condition in which the inner layer of the aorta, the large blood vessel branching off the heart, tears.»

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«We worry about cardiovascular events, aortic dissections, an impending blockage of a blood vessel in the heart, possibly pneumonia.»