Meanings of acute dissection in English

Houllier suffered an acute dissection of the aorta at half-time during Saturday's Premiership draw with Leeds United.

The mean number of risk factors in non-survivors versus survivors was significantly higher in acute dissection, chronic dissection, chronic arteriosclerotic aneurysms and thoracoabdominal aneurysms.

One hundred eight patients with spontaneously developing thoracic aortic dissection were seen between 1966-1973, 78 of whom had acute dissection and 30 chronic.

We report a case of a 61 year-old man in whom acute dissection of the ascending aorta developed 2 years after coronary artery bypass grafting.

Objective: Acute dissection of the ascending aorta requires immediate surgical intervention.

Five patients presented a Marfan disease and 4 acute dissections.

Acute dissection of the ascending aorta as a late complication of coronary artery bypass grafting has been rarely reported.