What are the long term consequences of Aortic Dissection?

Patients with aortic dissection may develop aortic aneurysms over time, and this is why it's important to check with your GP or your cardiologist surgeons at regular intervals and get CT scans at regular intervals to look at how the aorta is doing over time. Because the aorta will continue to slowly and progressively dilate, meaning it gets slightly bigger, and at some point it may or may not reach what we call threshold for fixing an aortic aneurysm. threshold in the chest happens to be six to six and a half depending on the patient six and a half centimeter or six centimeters and in the abdomen is around five and a half centimeters. So it's important to follow that progress over time.