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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:1069-1070
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Paolo Centofanti, MDa, Roberto Flocco, MDa, Fabrizio Ceresa, MDa, Matteo Attisani, MDa, Michele La Torre, MDa, Luca Weltert, MDa, Antonio M. Calafiore, MDb

a University of Turin, C.so Bramante 88, Turin, Italy
b University of Catania, via Citelli, Catania, 95124 Italy

(Email: paolocentofanti@tiscali.it; calafiore@unich.it).

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To the Editor:

There is no doubt that aggressive surgical treatment of type A aortic ascending dissection (AAD) saved a large number of lives compared with medical therapy only.

We believe that emergency surgery is the elective option for most type A aortic dissections. In our center, surgery was never denied as long as there was a possibility for it to successful. In the last 2 decades the observed early mortality rate (25%) remained stable and is similar to that reported by different authors.

In their letter to the editor regarding our article [1], Khaladj and coworkers [2] quoted a reference that shows their experience in treating acute aortic dissection type A by . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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