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Prompt diagnosis and rapid therapy are the only effective methods to improve acute aortic dissection survival.
This review provides an up-to-date overview of the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of acute aortic dissection.
Highlights urgency of rapid intervention in acute aortic dissection; leaves open optimal adjunctive strategies for future trials.
Acute aortic dissection is one of the most rapidly fatal clinical entities that can be encountered in the emergency department setting. Prompt establishment of the diagnosis, through focused physical examination and non-invasive imaging, followed by rapid medical and surgical therapy, are the only effective methods to alter survival in patients with acute aortic dissection. The aim of this paper is to perform an up-to-date clinical review of acute aortic dissection including its epidemiology, risk factors, clinical presentation, algorithms in establishing the diagnosis, and of available medical and surgical therapies.
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LN et al. (2015) conducted a review in Acute aortic dissection. Prompt diagnosis and rapid medical and surgical therapy are the only effective methods to alter survival in patients with acute aortic dissection.
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