Highlights the rare but severe complication of type A aortic dissection occurring late after aortic valve replacement even when the ascending aorta was initially normal.
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Alerts clinicians to rare late dissection after AVR with normal initial aorta; hypothesis-generating for post-AVR surveillance.
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