What are the latest advances in Aortic Dissection?

Within surgery - a lot of progress is made with different techiniques to do more less invasive surgeries, and with new "spare-parts" like stents and grafts.

Within genetics a big progress is made every year to find out more about the cuases for aortic diseases.

We need to learn more och both treatments, how to help people avoid getting acute ill if they have a familial aortic disease, find new medications to slow down progression, and to improve poste operative care seeing the "whole patient" after having survived an acute AD.

Non evasive surgery such as stenting is a great medical advance.
Techniques in all surgeries for Dissection have advanced incredibly through the years of my Dissection.
14 years ago I were given the odds of 80% fatality if I underwent surgery.
My Dissection was and still is medically managed.
Nowadays my surgery has an 80% success rate.
The advancement in genetics has undoubtedly saved lives and will continue to do so.

I also believe that awareness of aortic dissection is a great advancement and saves lives now and will continue to do so in the future.
Detection of aortic dissection within first phase medical assessment such as A&E departments, 1st responders is vital and a diagnostic programme should be put in place in all 1st phase departments.
THINK AORTA!
AD is often mistaken for heart attack,
If the ecg readings come back negative for heart attack THINK AORTA!

1) Awareness getting folks to realize when dissection occurs its life threatening!! and getting The ER folks to diagnose them quicker


2) GENETICS advancement > study and better understanding of Which Genomes can be linked to AD and getting folks that KNOW they have an issue to share genetic testing to ID potential Family Members in the future..



King George V, Lucille Ball , Albert Einstein, John Ritter , Alan Thicke, Ron Jeremy are just a few more famous names of people who have had Aortic disease, one of that list survived, even drove himself to the hospital...

I follow all comments made on social media groups to read any current advances

I have recently read that there is a first case of an endovascular procedure to repair a type dissection (August 2018) rather than the standard open heart surgery.

One great advance is that the surgery is becoming less invasive

No, I am afraid I really don’t know what the latest advances are. The Dacron shield was developed 40 or so years ago, but other than general advances in all surgeries, I don’t know. I know that there is more knowledge among the medical profession as to the condition. But because this is so rare, many patients die before they are even diagnosed. A great deal of information pertaining to AD comes from the John Ritter Foundation.

Sorry, I have no information about this.

I am not aware of any except open heart surgery.