Conservative treatment of type A aortic dissection: a case report with 5 years of follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute aortic dissection causes major morbidities and mortalities. The treatment of choice for type A aortic dissection (TAAD) is emergent surgical intervention. However, surgery per se may be associated with significant risk, in part due to the general surgical challenges, and the inherent hemodynamic- and organ malperfusion effects. In particular, surgery correlates with marked perioperative mortality in octo- and nonagenarians and those with severe comorbidities. Conservative medical treatment represents an alternative approach to patients for whom surgery is deemed high-risk, but case literature in this field remains sparse.

Case description

We present a case of an 86-year-old female admitted with TAAD and deemed inoperable by the cardiothoracic surgical team d

SUBMITTER: Arvin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10628417 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature