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Hello, everyone! I hope you are all doing well. My name is Alvaro, and today our discussion focuses on acute Type B aortic dissection (TBAD), which occurs when a tear develops in the descending thoracic aorta, allowing blood to enter the aortic wall and create a false lumen. This false channel can compress the true lumen, reducing blood flow to critical branch vessels—and when organs lose perfusion, malperfusion syndrome develops. This is one of the most dangerous complicatio

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Come take your mind off of Aortic Disease and join Aortic Hope and Diane Bishop, the Aortic Artist for our Arts & Crafts event, Monday, May 11th @7 pm on AHTV, our YouTube channel. Click HERE to watch! Diane is BACK and will be showing us how to create a decorative wreath made of seeds perfect for Mother's Day. To participate you will need the following: *Wire ring wreath (Dollar store, Michaels) *12-15 packets of floral or vegetable seeds *hot glue gun and glue sticks *artif

A Type A dissection involves the region of the aorta that attaches directly to the heart. Dissections in this region can quickly progress through the aorta and affect blood flow to the heart, brain, and arms. Source: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aortic-dissection/symptoms-causes/syc-20369496 Welcome back, everyone! Today we'll be discussing one of the most serious emergencies in cardiovascular medicine, a Type A aortic dissection (TAAD). It happens su