Key result
Acute aortic dissection can present atypically, necessitating early diagnosis and aggressive management to prevent life-threatening complications and high mortality.
Why the study?
Acute aortic dissection carries an unacceptably high mortality rate, making early diagnosis and aggressive management essential to prevent life-threatening complications.
Acute aortic dissection can present atypically, requiring high clinical suspicion for early diagnosis and management.
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Atypical aortic dissection presentations warrant sustained clinical vigilance; case reports leave open the need for prospective validation.
Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is associated with unacceptably high mortality rate. As such, early diagnosis and aggressive management are essential in order to avoid life-threatening complications. Herein, we report an atypical presentation of AAD and clinical sequelae.
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Mando et al. (2020) studied this question. Acute aortic dissection can present atypically, necessitating early diagnosis and aggressive management to prevent life-threatening complications and high mortality.
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