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.
Gasparović
Hrvoje
H
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Zagreb University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia.
Sirić
Franjo
F
Vojković
Jakov
J
Stern-Padovan
Ranka
R
Burcar
Ivan
I
Jelić
Ivan
I
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