Is Aortic Dissection preventable?

can aortic dissection be prevented? That's a difficult one. In some patients who are known to have connective tissue disorder or other people with familial dissection syndromes, the aorta can be monitored, especially the ascending aorta. In patients with a high risk of dissection, so those with Marfan syndrome, if the ascending aorta gets above or there, or within the region of five centimeters, then a prophylactic operation can often be performed because once you get above that diameter, suddenly the risk of dissection increases. The problem with almost everybody else is that we don't know who's gonna develop an aortic dissection. And often people are just asymptomatic with some underlying aortic problem or even with very high blood pressure until they come with a symptom. So I would say it's very difficult to prevent it as such. think making sure that people have their blood pressure controlled, managing cardiovascular risk factors and also some vigilance regarding symptoms would be the best way to prevent either developing a dissection or then having one and it then going undiagnosed.