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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 52, 537-540, Copyright © 1991 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Combined thoracic aortic dissection and abdominal aortic fusiform aneurysm

CS Roberts and WC Roberts
Surgery Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Certain clinical and autopsy findings are described in 13 patients who had both aortic dissection (AD) and fusiform abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). All 13 patients had severe and extensive aortic atherosclerosis. The AAA was diagnosed clinically in 9 patients, and 5 had the AAA resected. The AD was diagnosed clinically in 5 patients, and 2 underwent attempted operative repair. Two patients who had the AAA resected because of suspected rupture were found later to have ruptured a more proximal AD. Thus, AD occurs occasionally in patients who have AAA. In older persons with suspected rupture of an AAA, a more proximal rupture of an AD should be ruled out. When both AAA and AD are present in the same patient, the AD is more likely the cause of cardiovascular collapse than is rupture of the AAA.

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