In 1939 East was able to find records of only 27 instances in which the diagnosis of dissecting aneurysm had been made during life. Usually death from complete rupture of the aorta quickly follows the initial dissection; of the 300 cases collected by Shennan (1934) 210 died within a week and survival for more than a year was recorded in only 16 cases. We have, therefore, thought it desirable to record two cases in which the diagnosis was made during life; one patient survived for three years and the other is alive and comparatively well eight years after radiographic recognition of the aortic lesion.
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Jones et al. (1946) studied this question.