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Type B Aortic Dissection and Right Hemothorax

Department of Cardiac Surgery Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre Southampton General Hospital Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK

Theodore J Velissaris, AFRCS Tel: 44 23 8079 6233 Fax: 44 23 8079 6277 email: theovelissaris@hotmail.com Department of Cardiac Surgery, Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton, Hampshire, England SO16 6YD, UK.

A 62-year-old man presented with acute onset of chest pain and dyspnea. Three years previously, he had undergone aortic valve replacement with a mechanical prosthesis, and 7 months later, the ascending aorta was replaced with an interposition graft for acute type A aortic dissection. . . . [Full Text of this Article]