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What is Chronic Aortic Dissection?
The term may be discussed during follow up visits with your doctor. Patients need to understand what chronic AD means and what they need to watch for
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Chronic aortic dissection is for someone who had survived the initial hospital admission and usually over time, traditionally we say anything beyond 12 weeks or 3 months would be called chronic aortic section. The reason for that elapsed time is aortic section create a tear, that tear create a whole new lumen and the pathology just tend to be more stable after 12 weeks. And that's the reason we change the terminology from acute to subacute and then chronic aortic dissection.
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