In an earlier report, we documented the incidence and impact of aortic branch compromise complicating acute aortic dissection (AD) over a 21-year interval (1965-1986). In the current study, management of peripheral vascular complications (PVCs) of AD over the past decade was reviewed.
Division of Vascular Surgery and the Thoracic Aortic Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02114, USA.