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“If thoracic aortic disease can be detected early and managed, it gives us the opportunity to select patients for surgical or endovascular repair when the patient is stable. The results of treatment for stable disease are far better than for acute—and often catastrophic—aortic rupture or dissection.”
Hiratzka et al. (2010) studied this question.