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(Chest. 1968;54:372-377.)
© 1968 American College of Chest Physicians

Drug Therapy for Dissecting Aneurysms

Myron W. Wheat Jr. M.D.1 and Roger F. Palmer M.D.2

1 Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Surgery, College of Medicine. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
2 Markle Scholar in Academic Medicine

The usefulness of intensive drug therapy in the management of acute dissecting aneurysms of the aorta is established. Careful follow-up of patients with dissecting aneurysms on drug therapy is mandatory since one third of these patients will require elective surgical intervention for a localized saccular aneurysm or aortic valve insufficiency. Drug therapy provides the physician practicing in the community hospital with a successful method of therapy for the acute dissecting aneurysm of the aorta.






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