When to Consider Deferral of Surgery in Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: A Review

When to Consider Deferral of Surgery in Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: A Review [1]

In this article, the authors review the literature highlighting factors that increase a patient's risk in acute Type A aortic dissection repair and provides suggestions for risk stratification to guide timing of surgery in select patients.

Source name:

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Resource link:

https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(20)31425-9/fulltext [3]

Taxonomy:

Ascending Aorta [4]

Great Vessels [5]

Subspecialty(ies):

Cardiac [6]

Author(s):

Ashraf A. Sabe, MD, Edward Percy, MD, Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, Ryan P. Plichta, MD, G. Chad Hughes, MD

Taxonomy2018 vocabulary term reference:

Aorta 1 [7]