CASE REPORT
Early Acute Aortic Dissection after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
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Medway Maritime Hospital, Windmill Road, Gillingham, Kent, ME7 5HN, UK
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Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 8AT, UK
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St Vincents University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin, D4, Ireland
Publication date: 2010-04-12
Eur J Gen Med 2010;7(2):223-225
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ABSTRACT
Acute aortic dissection is a rare but potentially fatal complication of CABG. Despite its low incidence it has a high mortality. Whereas intraoperative and late dissections are well described in the literature, early dissections are not. The latter may present atypically eluding diagnosis. Timely chest CT aids diagnosis.