Acute Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm

Abstract

DISSECTING aneurysm of the aorta is a well described clinical and pathological entity, and yet nearly all the considerable literature on this disease is descriptive and analytical, with very little discussion of therapy. There is an incentive to attempts at surgical treatment of this disorder since it is mechanical and since the results of nonspecific treatment are poor.Gurin et al.,¹ in 1935, reported surgical treatment of a case of dissecting aortic aneurysm in which the presenting picture was acute arterial insufficiency in one leg. Excision of the internal wall of the aneurysm at the furthermost point of its advance . . .