Patients with AD get CT scans regularly of their entire aorta. Professor Mussa explains why keeping up this routine is so important to avoid future emergencies.
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So, the main tests required for a patient with aortic section, after the patient show up to the emergency department with severe chest pain and high blood pressure, they get the routine blood work and so on. and some what we call inflammatory markers that could be elevated. But really the diagnosis happens when the patient undergoes a CT scan. So that is a CT scan that involves the chest, the abdomen, the pelvis, and the lower extremities to look for that aortic section which is a tear or these two false lumens anywhere from the start of the aorta near the heart and all the way down to the lower extremities or the femoral arteries.
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