Beyond the tear: the enduring role of aortic pathology in the era of genomic medicine.

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Thoracic aortic dissection is often approached as an acute and localised event, and pathological examination has traditionally focused on the dissected segment. In daily practice, however, most clinicians recognise that the dissection itself is rarely the starting point of disease. Structural abnormalities of the aortic wall are frequently present long before rupture occurs and may extend well beyond the site of...

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