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What are the symptoms of Aortic Dissection?
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What are the symptoms of Aortic Dissection?

As a patient with hypertension, you need to know that certain symptoms are typical of AD. This is important because early diagnosis may be lifesaving. Professor Mussa highlights the key symptoms of AD

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The main signs and symptoms of aortic dissection is chest pain, usually described as a very severe central chest pain radiating to the back, meaning you feel it just in the center of the chest and you feel it between your shoulder blades. This is called or been described as the worst pain of someone's life. So it's really that is the main symptom of patients with high blood pressure with aortic section. And other than that it comes in with abdominal pain, headache, a variety of symptoms could be any set of symptoms depending on the organs involved in the disease. It could manifest as a heart attack, as a stroke, as inadequate blood flow to the leg or the kidneys or the intestine as manifested with severe abdominal pain. And on a physical exam and somebody would like to look for signs of aortic section is really the main sign is high blood pressure. So the blood pressure would be shooting up to the 200 on the systolic blood pressure. So it's very elevated blood pressure, both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. And also not much in terms of abdominal pain unless there is evidence that not adequate or abdominal tenderness unless there's evidence of intestinal ischemia. Or patients could lose their pulses in the legs if they're involving the lower extremities.

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