Acute type A aortic dissection with coronary artery dissection

Submitted by: Erica CurcioGold Contributor

Source: European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/3/419.abstract

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Author(s): Kiyotaka Imoto, Keiji Uchida, Norihisa Karube, Toru Yasutsune, Tonoki Cho, Kazuo Kimura, Munetaka Masuda, and Satoshi Morita

Seventy-five patients with acute type A aortic dissection with coronary artery dissection were analyzed. Preoperative cardiopulmonary arrest and myocardial ischemia were associated with poor survival outcome whereas early revascularization resulted in a lower frequency of low cardiac output syndrome.

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