Category archives for Aortic Dissection

MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF AORTIC DISSECTIONS

Aortic dissections are a medical emergency.  They can be treated either medically or surgically.  Generally the treatment of choice for ascending aortic dissections is surgical intervention.  Surgical intervention is also used for complicated descending dissections.  Various issues determine whether an aortic dissection will be treated medically or surgically.  We will be addressing the medical management […]