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Prevention of secondary mortality after type B aortic dissection
Quaniers J , Creemers E , Djekic J , Limet R
Rev Med Liege 2003, 58(6),400-403Abstract : Only few dissecting aneurysms type A survive without surgery. Opposingly, the dissecting aneurysms type B are successfully managed by the medical treatment 'anti-impulsion'. A personal series is reported, that evidence important cardiovascular mortality in the follow-up in chronic dissecting aneurysms type B; one part of this late mortality is linked to rupture of the thoracic descending aorta. Thus, the prevention of this late mortality depends on a strict follow-up of the characters and dimensions of descending aortic thoracic aorta
