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Correction to Nienaber, N Engl J Med 330(19):1361 May 12, 1994.

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Volume 331:815 September 22, 1994 Number 12
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Aortic Dissection

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To the Editor: Nienaber (May 12 issue)1 presented an image of an aortic dissection obtained by transesophageal echocardiography in a horizontal plane. He described the dissection as located in the ascending aorta, approximately 3 cm above the aortic valve. The absence of any visualized structure between the transesophageal echocardiographic probe and the aorta suggests that the probe was in immediate proximity to the aortic wall. Because the esophagus normally lies adjacent only to the descending aorta, we suspect that the segment of the aorta depicted corresponds to the descending rather than the ascending aorta.


Markus Jakob, M.D.
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