The pressure required to experimentally dissect the aortic media peaks in early adulthood and decreases with age, suggesting that localized medial degeneration may be sufficient to initiate dissection.
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Should not alter clinical aortic risk assessment by age; leaves open whether medial degeneration initiates human dissection.
Hirst et al. (1962) studied this question.
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