The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American Association for Thoracic Surgery clinical practice guidelines on the management of type B aortic dissection

Affiliations

• ¹ Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, Tex. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
• ³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
• ⁶ Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
• ⁷ Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
• ⁸ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Freiburg, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Tex.
• ¹⁰ The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Chicago, Ill.
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.
• ¹² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Tex.
• ¹³ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colo.
• ¹⁶ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ¹⁷ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.