J.S. Veluz Archives - Clinical Tree

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Cerebrovascular Complications of Cardiac Surgery

Background Cardiac surgery has undergone a rapid and extraordinary development since mid-1940s. Many operations that were once considered experimental are now commonplace, with thousands of open heart procedures performed annually in the United States. At present, an estimated 1 million…

Aortic Dissection and Stroke

Introduction Aortic dissection occurs in about 3–4 per 100,000 persons per year. A common clinical error is to equate aortic dissection with aneurysm. This misconception unfortunately has been propagated since the earliest descriptions of these diseases, describing a “Dissecting Aneurysm…