Surgical treatment of aortic dissection in a patient with metastatic prostate cancer.
Acute aortic dissection bears all the stigmata of a true clinical emergency. The natural history of this acute aortic syndrome warrants prompt surgical intervention, with only a few absolute contraindications to this line of treatment. We present a 74-year-old man with documented metastatic prostate cancer who underwent emergent surgery for acute Stanford A aortic dissection. Having acknowledged the relatively favorable evolution of our patient's malignant disease, we were not deterred by its presence from pursuing surgical treatment of his aortic dissection.
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia.
Hrvoje
H
Gasparović
Franjo
F
Sirić
Jakov
J
Vojković
Ranka
R
Stern-Padovan
Ivan
I
Burcar
Ivan
I
Jelić
D000368:Aged; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000601:surgery*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed