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Imaging modality Setting (labs vs intensive care units, interventional or operating room) Feasibility (selective criteria; renal function) Accuracy in wall evaluation and non mobile atheroma Accuracy in wall evaluation and…

Figure 6.1 DeBakey and Stanford classification of aortic dissection. The DeBakey classification system categorizes dissections based on the origin of the intimal tear and the extent of the dissection: Type…

Figure 5.1 Aortic dissection classification: DeBakey and Stanford classification as the currently most frequently used classification systems for aortic dissection Prevalence of Risk Factors Aortic dissection and its variants are…

Non-infectious a Associated with vasculitides  With large-vessel vasculitis   Giant cell arteritisb   Takayasu arteritisb  With variable vessel vasculitis   Cogan’s syndromeb   Behçet’s diseasec  With medium- and small-vessel vasculitis   Polyarteritis nodosad   Wegener arteritisd…

Absence of family history Aortic root dilatationa or aortic root dissection AND ectopia lentis Aortic root dilatationa or aortic root dissection AND FBN1 mutation Aortic root dilatationa or aortic root…

Figure 3.1 Age at surgery according to the type of TAA Actually, available literature about TAA is limited, and there has been very few medical studies in this group of…