True Aortic Dissection?

written by
Sophie Wieser, MD
Mon, 18/12/2023

We are all afraid of missing the diagnosis of an aortic dissection in our medical careers. Aortic dissection is a real emergency and nearly no patient survives without rapid surgery. The mortality rate is about 70%, with death most commonly due to intrapericardial aortic rupture!

But what if we flip the situation around? What if you diagnosed an aortic dissection when in fact there was none? Look at the following two example loops:

  • Do they both show aortic dissection?
  • Or have artifacts sneaked into the diagnosis?

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