title: Acute aortic dissection. A comparison between the results of medical and surgical treatments.
abstract: Over the last ten years 96 patients with aortic dissection were encountered in our Institute, of whom 51 had type A dissection, and 45 had type B dissection. In the patients with type A dissection the long-term survival rate was poor if they were not operated upon without delay, and the cause of death was usually rupture of the aneurysms. In the patients with acute type B dissection the surgical indication was limited and, generally speaking the long-term survival rate of the medically treated patients was more favorable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kimata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hosoda
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D002423:Cause of Death; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000209:etiology; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000209:etiology; D015996:Survival Rate