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akanksha · Credits: 41247 My Scrapbook My Reading List 14 Books

1)Investigation of choice in aortic dissection:

a)Ultrasound
b)CT
c)MRI
d)Digital segmental angiography

ans given is digital segmental angiography.

another variant.....

Q377)Invest of choice in aortic dissection:

a)MRI
b)Enhanced CT
c)Angiography
d)Ultrsound

here ans given is MRI.

well,harrision says,
CT n MRI are becoming diagnostic procedures of choice for aortic dissection.
n ends the para with the statement dat CT and MRI,obviously less suitable for more unstable patient(hemodynamic stablility,its referring to). 8)

kindly update.

Im lost.

pilgrim · Credits: 947 My Scrapbook

A noninvasive diagnostic strategy using MRI in all hemodynamically stable patients and TEE in patients who are too unstable to be moved should be considered the optimal approach to detecting dissection of the thoracic aorta. Comprehensive and detailed evaluation can thus be reduced to a single noninvasive diagnostic test in the investigation of suspected dissection of the thoracic aorta.

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i would go for MRI

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