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Key points include that surgeons are adapting their surgical strategies to more aggressively treat aortic dissections with improved outcomes.
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According to the research, patients with a hereditary predisposition for aortic dissection and a dilation of the aorta also appear to have an increased aortic stiffness.
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.
These complex aortic dissection surgeries benefit from cerebral perfusion, with 85 % of cases currently using the technique.
«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.
«Patients with this mutation may merit earlier surgical therapy, before aortic dissection has a chance to occur,» Elefteriades says.
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,...
Patients with one or more high - risk clinical features (tearing pain, hypotension, pulse deficit, neurologic deficit, new murmur) should be considered high risk for acute aortic dissection (AAD).
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