Surgical management of a type A aortic dissection in a pregnant patient

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  FIGURE 1. Initial computed tomography angiogram of the patient's chest obtained on hospital admission Day 3, showing a Stanford type A aortic dissection involving the ascending aorta.

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  FIGURE 2. Initial computed tomography angiogram of the patient's chest obtained on hospital admission Day 3, showing a Stanford type A aortic dissection involving the aortic arch.

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  FIGURE 3. Postoperative computed tomography angiogram of the patient's repaired ascending aorta and proximal hemiarch, obtained 1 month after surgical repair of type A aortic dissection. The remaining, unrepaired flap distal to the repair can still be seen, also present in the descending and abdominal aorta.