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The Issue of Entry Closure and Aortic Tailoring in Type B Aortic Dissection

Department for Surgery of the Aorta and Its Branches, National Research Center of Surgery, 2 Abrikosovsky per., Moscow 119992, Russia

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To the Editor:

The article entitled "Entry closure and aortic tailoring for chronic type B aortic dissection" was immensely interesting.¹ We congratulate the authors on their publication, but we do not share their opinion on the advantages of this technique over standard repair, and we would like to add some brief comments on certain terms in the text and performance limitations of the procedure described.

The first point relates to the terminology. The Stanford University group classification was proposed by Daily and colleagues² for acute aortic dissection only. This classification is based on the natural history and risk of aortic rupture, depending on ascending aorta involvement. For an exact definition of the anatomical characteristics of dissection, the authors should use the classification of DeBakey and colleagues.³ Moreover, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2009; 17:110-111
© 2009 by SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0218492309102652