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Aortic intramural haematoma: current therapeutic strategy

M D Dake

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Michael D Dake, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Room H3647, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; mddake@stanford.edu

Keywords: aortic intramural haematoma

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Over the last 10 years, intramural haematoma (IMH) of the aorta has become increasingly recognised as a pathological entity distinct from aortic dissection.¹ Despite this enhanced appreciation and the resultant increase in the frequency of its diagnostic identification, a consensus regarding optimal management strategies for this disease has not been established.² This is due in part to our incomplete understanding of a condition only first clearly established in the mid 1980s. As opposed to aortic dissection where we have developed a relatively comprehensive knowledge of the more common constellations of anatomic involvement and their clinical outcomes, with IMH we are now only at a stage of correlating insights gleaned from clinical series contributed by investigators from around the world.^1–14 Many of theses observations have been presented in the prior discussions.

As the profile of clinical factors, imaging findings, acute outcomes, and long term results of various management strategies comes into . . . [Full text of this article]

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