To continue discussing the chest pain patient from last week…(you remember, the syphilitic patient with Turner Syndrome who presents with tearing chest and epigastric pain radiating to the back with unequal upper extremity blood pressures, a pulseless leg, neurologic deficits)
What Chest X-Ray findings can you see here?
How are aortic dissections classified?
Diagnose Aortic Dissection?
Aortic Dissection Treatment?
By Dr. Andrew Grock and Dr. Sally Bogoch
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