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Surgical Treatment of Aortic Dissection in a Patient with Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Hrvoje Gašparović
Franjo Širić
Jakov Vojković
Ranka Stern-Padovan
Ivan Burcar
Ivan Jelić


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Abstract

Acute aortic dissection bears all the stigmata of a true clinical emergency. The natural history of this acute aortic syndrome warrants prompt surgical intervention, with only a few absolute contraindications to this line of treatment. We present a 74-year-old man with documented metastatic prostate cancer who underwent emergent surgery for acute Stanford A aortic dissection. Having acknowledged the relatively favorable evolution of our patient’s malignant disease, we were not deterred by its presence from pursuing surgical treatment of his aortic dissection.

Keywords

aortic dissection; surgery; metastatic cancer

Hrčak ID:

59388

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/59388

Publication date:

1.10.2010.

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