Aortic dissection must not always cause chest pain and back pain acutely and suddenly.
Sometimes it can go on for months and possibly even years.
In Stanford, type A aortic dissection, there is dissection present in the ascending and the descending part or only the ascending part of the aorta.
In this type of aortic dissection, about half of the patients die within three days.
However, in Stanford’s Type B aortic dissection, there is a dissection present in the descending part of the aorta only, and in this case, only about 10% of the patients die within a month.
Can you recall two types of aortic dissection?
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