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3041654

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-9-8
pubmed:abstractText
In patients suffering from aortic dissection, persistent perfusion of the false lumen distal to the implanted graft is frequent. Postoperative follow-up examinations of the carotid arteries of these patients were performed by duplex scanner and correlated with clinical symptoms. Thirty-nine patients who survived the surgical treatment of acute type A aortic dissection had duplex sonography of both common carotid arteries after an average postoperative follow-up of 53 months. In 21 cases a composite graft and in 18 cases a supracoronary prosthetic vascular graft were implanted. No sign of residual dissection of the common carotid arteries was seen in 23 patients; in nine there was a dissection of both common carotid arteries, and seven patients had a unilateral carotid dissection (five right, two left). There were nine symptomatic patients with the following symptoms: transient ischemic attack (four), amaurosis fugax (four), stroke with incomplete recovery (one). Two symptomatic patients had a corresponding dissection. The generally good prognosis of all these patients suggests a conservative nonoperative treatment.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0039-2499
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
970-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Duplex scanner study of carotid artery dissection following surgical treatment of aortic dissection type A.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Berne, Switzerland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article