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To the Editor: The main limitation of the study of a large cohort of patients with type B acute aortic dissection from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD), reported by Tsai et al. (July 26 issue),¹ is the exclusion of patients who died in the hospital. Fifty patients (24.9% of the 201 patients examined) died within 3 years after discharge from the hospital, whereas 66 patients must have died in the hospital because 466 of the 532 patients enrolled in the IRAD who had type B acute aortic dissection were discharged from the hospital alive. In a previous . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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