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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, Zurich, CH-8091 Switzerland

(Email: oliver.reuthebuch@triemli.stzh.ch).

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There is still an ongoing debate on how to define, diagnose, and consequently how to treat intramural hematoma (IMH). Beside acute dissection and ulcer, intramural hematoma is a third entity of aortic disorder. Park and colleagues [1] have compared preoperative computed tomographic scans with intraoperative findings, showing that there seems to be a substantial proportion of patients (27 of 37 [73%]) suffering from intramural hematoma associated with intimal tear. In only 10 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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