Professor Mussa discusses how to keep track of your aortic growth overtime. This is important to stay ahead and informed about one’s health and how
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The best way to detect an aortic aneurysm in patients with aortic dissection is through CT scan. This is done normally for patients with aortic dissection at regular intervals, let's say say you are five years out, so you have a yearly CT scan. And on that CT scan, you're following the progress of the aorta. And if it moves from, let's say, 5 centimeter in the abdominal aorta to 5.2 to 5.4 to 5.7, and over a period of time or many years, then at some time or some point, this may need to be treated, obviously depending on thorough evaluation of the rest of the patient and what patient would like to have done at that moment in time.
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