7.4 Aortic Dissection and Aneurysm

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    Next section is aortic dissection and aneurysm. We're going to start with dissection and then work our way to aneurysm. So in an aortic dissection, the idea is that you've got this blood vessel wall, which contains an intima, a media, and a…

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    However, in the proximal first 10 centimeters of the aorta, you know that the wall is super thick. So very early on in the aorta, in the very proximal part of the aorta, as it comes off the heart, the wall is very thick, and the diffusion o…

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    Those are the two. two classic locations in the large blood vessels. Now what you need to know in order to understand how these might occur is that the only way you're going to get an aneurysm is you need weakness in the aorta wall. You mus…

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    and high association with hypertension. So these are all risk factors of patients who develop atherosclerosis. And in fact, one of the most common locations of atherosclerosis in the human body is the abdominal aorta. How do these patients …