Assertion: aortic dissection | /r/CapableOf | involve ascending aorta
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text: If it is determined that an aortic dissection involves the ascending aorta (DeBakey type I and II or Stanford type A), this is considered a surgical emergency in most patients.
text: In DeBakey’s hands, the majority of repairs involved dissection of the descending thoracic aorta, and he speculated that aortic dissection involving the ascending aorta is rapidly fatal, such that affected patients are unlikely to survive long enough to present for repair.