Awareness on dangerous aortic dissection and its varied clinical manifestations / 中华消化外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Aortic dissection (AD) is one of the disastrous cardiovascular diseases.Due to the uncertain,varied clinical manifestations of the AD,clinical misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis may occur occasionally.Doctors should carefully and thoroughly evaluate clinical manifestations,and raise awareness and vigilance on acute AD.After suspecting or diagnosing acute AD,specialists of vascular surgery should be contacted as soon as possible so that they could successfully treat patients.By briefly describing the different clinical manifestations of the AD in various human systems,this paper aims to promote the recognition of the atypical AD.