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Acute type A aortic dissection with coronary artery dissection

Saturday, August 31, 2013

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Source Name: European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/44/3/419.abstract

Author(s)

Kiyotaka Imoto, Keiji Uchida, Norihisa Karube, Toru Yasutsune, Tonoki Cho, Kazuo Kimura, Munetaka Masuda, and Satoshi Morita

Seventy-five patients with acute type A aortic dissection with coronary artery dissection were analyzed. Preoperative cardiopulmonary arrest and myocardial ischemia were associated with poor survival outcome whereas early revascularization resulted in a lower frequency of low cardiac output syndrome.