At the basic level, AD is a tear in the lining of the aorta. This creates two parallel channels to carry blood to the rest of the body. Professor Mussa demonstrates what is really AD and what happens when the aorta tears
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So, aortic section is a tear in the innermost lining of the aorta, which is the main artery that supplies the body outside the heart, and that creates two channels of blood flow. One is the old aorta where the blood was normally flowing and now with the tear there is a new stream of blood and that is called a false lumen where the blood is also parallel to the old lumen of the aorta.
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