title: Successful surgical correction of acute ascending aortic dissection: a case report.
abstract: The prognosis of patients with acute aortic dissection is extremely poor, especially when involving the ascending aorta. It has long been recognized as a catastrophic cardiovascular event. Acute dissections involving an ascending aorta have approximately a 90 percent acute mortality rate if left untreated or treated medically. Therefore, nearly all patients with acute ascending aortic dissection should be surgically treated immediately after a diagnosis has been established. A 60-year-old man having an acute ascending aortic dissection was successfully operated on with a resection of the dissecting aorta which was replaced with a Dacron graft. The postoperative course was complicated with a respiratory insufficiency and a disruption of the sternal wound. A 4 years follow-up confirmed the patient was in good condition. This is the first successfully operated case of acute ascending aortic dissection at our hospital.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: Y F
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Y T
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications