Guido Giordano, MD. Department of Cardiology, Azienda Ospedaliera Cannizzaro, Catania - Italy -

gugiorda@tin.it

Type 2 aortic dissection

The following images and video refer to a fifty years old man.


ECG


Transesophageal Echocardiography

ao.v. aortic valve - i.f. intimal flap - l.v. left ventricle - as.ao. ascending aorta

During diastole the intimal flap prolapses into the left ventricle. Color-Doppler echo revealed severe aortic insufficiency. The descending thoracic aorta was normal.

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