Mortality for acute aortic dissection near one percent per hour during initial onset

Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

The belief among medical professionals in the 1950s that the mortality rate for type A acute aortic dissection during the initial 24 hours was one to two percent per hour appears to hold true in the contemporary era of treatment, based on a review of the large-scale IRAD registry.

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