Looking up open surgery can be confusing since the operation can be carried out on different parts of the aorta. Professor Mussa describes the different operations specific to patients with Aortic dissection
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For patients with type A aortic dissection, the cut will be through the chest, what's called a sternotomy, open the chest bone and get access directly to the area of the pathology and fix it once and for all, and that also would require regular follow-up. If patients get an operation for type B aortic dissection, that incision could be anywhere from the groin to the abdomen to the side of the body. It depends what we're trying to do. But most of the time nowadays, the patients with type B aortic dissection get a stent instead of an open operation.
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