Guido Giordano, MD. Department of Cardiology, Azienda Ospedaliera Cannizzaro, Catania - Italy -
Type 2 aortic dissection
The following images and video refer to a fifty years old man.
ECG
Transesophageal Echocardiography
ao.v. aortic valve - i.f. intimal flap - l.v. left ventricle - as.ao. ascending aorta
During diastole the intimal flap prolapses into the left ventricle. Color-Doppler echo revealed severe aortic insufficiency. The descending thoracic aorta was normal.