On Nov. 28,2000 I was returning to Albemarle having taken my mother to the eye doctor when I felt a sharp spasm in my back which grew worse and worse quickly. They stabilized my condition and diagnosed a 5.6cm dissection of my descending aorta. It now appears I may need conventional surgery. A dissection of the descending aorta is present beginning just distal to the origin of the LEFT subclavian artery. Flap is well visualized down into the lower chest.
Flow is identified in the true and false lumens in the proximal portion of the dissection.
The dissection appears to begin in the proximal descending aorta just distal to the origin of the LEFT subclavian artery. Some atelectatic lung is seen adjacent to the descending aorta. Hopefully someone could share their actual knowledge with me. If anyone has had surgery under either of these two or could suggest someone else in North Carolina I would appreciate it. Again this is a dissection of the descending aorta.