Dr. Robert C. Lee’s article in the New England Journal of Medicine titled: “The Future of Health Reform: A Patient-Centered Approach” is an important read for all health care administrators. The title is not only a great read, but it also gives you an idea of how the data on the topic has been collected. As Dr. Lee describes in the article, the data was gathered via a large national survey that included over 5000 patients.
Dr. Lee’s article includes an interesting section titled “Is There a Cure for TAA?” which he states is “the question that has most patients looking for answers.
This question has been asked for over 20 years now, but we still don’t know if there is a cure for aortic dissection. It is a tragic condition, but there is no definitive cure for it, and there are a number of treatments that have been tried but proven not to be effective. In fact, there are no drugs that can be used to treat aortic dissection. This is the unfortunate truth that the medical community has to face.
For TAA, we do know that surgical treatment is often effective. The fact is that many patients with the disease will have a short life expectancy because of the high recurrence rate of the disease. But by having the disease reversed surgically you can live to a great old age, or even a younger age.
It’s important to note that the true mortality rate of the disease is not the number of deaths of those who don’t receive surgery. It is the number of deaths of those who do. According to a study from the Cleveland Clinic, the mortality rate of aortic dissection is at least 5% per year. That seems like a fairly high rate to me. But the real problem is the low recurrence rate of the disease.
The recurrence rate for aortic dissection is at least 1 per year. That means it could easily recur. By the time you get rid of the disease surgically, you may have a scarred aorta. That means you are not only likely to die from the disease, you are also likely to have a reduced life expectancy because you will not be able to live a normal life again.
This is all very frightening. If you live with a dissection, you are likely to be a quadriplegic. A quadriplegic is a person who is unable to breathe on his own. This makes it very hard for him to go on with his life. The surgery to eliminate aortic dissection is not a cure, but it is a significant improvement.
With the surgery, it is possible to restore a person to a normal life. You will not be able to walk, chew, or swallow normally, but you will be able to move around and do everyday tasks. A person with a dissection is at high risk of dying from respiratory failure.
The surgery is a major surgery, which means a patient will have to undergo multiple surgeries. But the surgery is not a cure. In fact, the likelihood of dying is significantly higher than a person without a dissection. A person with a blood clot in the aorta is at increased risk of having a fatal stroke within the first few years after surgery. Most people who have a dissection will recover, and most people who have a dissection can return to a normal life without any surgery.
We didn’t want to give the impression that a patient could die anytime soon, but we knew we could never have a “successful” surgery. This is the reason why a number of people who have undergone heart bypass surgery, and a number who are currently undergoing heart bypass surgery, are being treated with pneumatic dilation, or balloon dilation. This is an artificial enlargement of the heart and reduces the blood flow by about 20% and 10%, respectively.