• DOI:10.1378/CHEST.122.1.311
Corpus ID: 14783683

Clinical, diagnostic, and management perspectives of aortic dissection.

@article{Khan2002ClinicalDA,
  title={Clinical, diagnostic, and management perspectives of aortic dissection.},
  author={I. Khan and C. Nair},
  journal={Chest},
  year={2002},
  volume={122 1},
  pages={
          311-28
        }
}

• I. Khan, C. Nair
• Published 2002
• Medicine
• Chest

The incidence of aortic dissection ranges from 5 to 30 cases per million people per year, depending on the prevalence of risk factors in the study population. Although the disease is uncommon, its outcome is frequently fatal, and many patients with aortic dissection die before presentation to the hospital or prior to diagnosis. While pain is the most common symptom of aortic dissection, more than one-third of patients may develop a myriad of symptoms secondary to the involvement of the organ… Expand

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