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. 2021 Dec 21:12:e2021346.
doi: 10.4322/acr.2021.346. eCollection 2022.

Type A aortic dissection

Gabriele Gaggero  1 , Luca Valle  2 , Jacopo Ferro  2 , Davide Taietti  3
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Type A aortic dissection

Gabriele Gaggero et al. Autops Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Aneurysm; Aortic Arch Syndromes; Aortic Diseases; Aortic Rupture; Cardiac Tamponade; Dissecting.

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Conflict of interest: None.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. A – On opening the pericardium, after removing a large blood clot, perforation of the intrapericardial aorta is identified; B – After removing the heart, the sloughed aortic wall is identified. At the opening of the aorta's emergence, the blood sequestration is found within the dissection plane (arrows); C – The first tracts of the supra-aortic arterial vessels also show wall dissection; D – Photomicrograph of the aortic wall dissection (black arrow), with blood interposition between the two layers (white arrow) (H&E, 2x).
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