In fall 2023, Earlie Smith experienced an aortic dissection. Months later, her brother, Larry Smith, also had one. The same doctor helped them both.

Aortic dissection is responsible for 13,000 deaths annually in the United States, according to the Journal of American College of Cardiology i n 2024 that examined data from 1999-2020.

Amal Mattu, MD Disclosures September 15, 2017 0 Clinical Profile of Patients of Acute Aortic Dissection Presenting to the ED Without Chest Pain Fan KL, Leung LP Am J Emerg Med. 2017;35:599-601 ...

About 50% of people who have an aortic dissection die at home. Of the other 50% who make it to the hospital, he said, 90% will die within a week or two if nothing is done.

Saxony Lutheran High School graduate and current Yale University student Hiren Parekh next to a poster with his team's research into Type A aortic dissection surgery outcomes in women during Yale ...