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This review highlights recent developments in acute aortic syndromes, including viewing them as a disease spectrum, optimizing imaging, and advancing surgical or endovascular management.
This review highlights recent developments in the understanding, imaging, and management of acute aortic syndromes for thoracic radiologists.
May inform spectrum-based aortic imaging protocols; leaves open prospective validation of radiation-minimizing techniques.
The term acute aortic syndrome comprises aortic dissection, intramural hematoma, and penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer. The most recent developments in acute aortic syndromes include (1) a change in the mindset that each entity is pathologically distinct, with a shift toward considering the acute aortic syndromes as points along a spectrum of aortic disease, (2) the optimization of aortic imaging quality and radiation dose, and (3) surgical or endovascular management. This review article focuses on how these developments pertain to thoracic radiologists.
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Ridge et al. (2015) conducted a review in Acute aortic syndromes. This review highlights recent developments in acute aortic syndromes, including viewing them as a disease spectrum, optimizing imaging, and advancing surgical or endovascular management.
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