PLZEŇSKÝ LÉKAŘSKÝ SBORNÍK
A multi-disciplinary medical journal publishing scientific works from theoretical and clinical fields with English summaries as well as works by foreign contributors in English. The chapter "Faculty Life" offers personal messages, reports on the faculty's activities in the past year and presents a complete bibliography of the medical faculty's departments and clinics in the year. The journal has been published since 1956.
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Contact: miluse.volterova@lfp.cuni.cz
Distribution: Ilona.Baxova@lfp.cuni.cz
PLZEŇSKÝ LÉKAŘSKÝ SBORNÍK, Vol 2017 No 83 (2017), 41–45
Pathophysiology and classification of aortic dissection
M. Chottová Dvořáková
published online: 04. 10. 2017
abstract
Aortic dissection is the most common catastrophic disorder to affect the aorta characterised by separation of the layers of the tunica media by ingress of blood, producing a false lumen. There are several factors involving in pathogenesis of this aortic disease including genetic, inflammatory, mechanical and other factors. This article summarise all available information about pathogenesis of aortic dissection and its classification.
