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Acute Aortic Dissection

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Acute aortic dissection is the most common acute process involving the aorta and requires urgent intervention. Although dissection may develop within an aortic aneurysm and rupture may occur as a complication of dissection, aneurysm and dissection are separate entities that must be clearly distinguished [1, 2].

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  1. Traverse Heart and Vascular, Traverse City, MI, USA

    Anna M. Booher

  2. Department of Radiology, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    David M. Williams

  3. Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiovascular Disease, Michigan Medicine, Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine, Samuel and Jean Frankel Cardiovascular Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Kim Allen Eagle

  4. Department of Surgery, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    G. Michael Deeb

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Booher, A.M., Williams, D.M., Eagle, K.A., Deeb, G.M. (2020). Acute Aortic Dissection. In: Baliga, R., Eagle, K. (eds) Practical Cardiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28328-5_27

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