internal medicine cardiology internal medicine cardiology
| Aortic dissection |
| Prevalence Clinical features Differential diagnosis Investigations Therapy Prevention Prognosis |  |
Around a sixth of patients with aortic dissection die before surgery, many from aortic rupture c 
Most survive surgery, and long-term survival is reasonable, though further surgery may be
required b , especially for rupture.
Patients are at increased risk of dying if they have
b
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Expiry date: August 2004
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides
| Author | CM Ball |
| Reviewer | M Briggs |
| CAT Writers | CM Ball , CJ Wotton |
