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Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka Medical Center, 762-1 Nagasawa, Shimizu-cho, Sunto-gun, Shizuoka, 411-8611 Japan
(Email: kfgth973@ybb.ne.jp).
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To the Editor:
On the basis of intraoperative findings, Park and associates [1] showed that the prevalence of intimal tear in the ascending aorta or arch is high (73.0%) in the patients who were diagnosed as Stanford type A acute aortic intramural hematoma (IMH) by conventional definition (ie, the presence of concentric space in the ascending aortic wall that was not enhanced by a contrast agent in the computed tomographic scan taken within 48 hours after symptom onset). Generally
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