Baylor Scott & White Health can provide patients with acute aortic syndrome timely surgical intervention at two of our high-volume cardiac surgery centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex.
Surgeons on the medical staff are on call 24/7 to receive acute aortic emergencies.
For patients presenting with acute aortic dissections and other thoracic aortic emergencies, call our Patient Transfer Center from anywhere in the metroplex to receive immediate transport and intervention.
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To schedule your patient for a non-emergent evaluation at the Aortic Center, call 469.814.3480.
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The Patient Transfer Center is your direct line to saving a life. It provides your patient access to quality surgical intervention at a high-volume cardiac surgery center where operative mortality is significantly lower than at low-volume centers.*
Surgeons on the medical staff are on call 24/7 to receive acute aortic emergencies, such as:
- Acute Type A or B Dissection
- Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
- Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm
An acute aortic dissection emergency has a mortality rate of 1 percent each hour that treatment is delayed. Left untreated, this emergency has a mortality rate of 21 percent at day one, 74 percent at day 14 and 93 percent at one year.**
* Mani Arsalan, MD, John J. Squiers, BSE, Morley A. Herbert, PhD, Juan C. MacHannaford, MD, Themistokles Chamogeorgakis, MD, Syma L. Prince, RN, BSN, Baron L. Hamman, MD, Cathy Knoff, RN, MBA, David O. Moore, MD, Katherine B. Harrington, MD, J. Michael DiMaio, MD, Michael J. Mack, MD, William T. Brinkman, MD, Comparison of Outcomes of Operative Therapy for Acute Type A Aortic Dissections Provided at High-Volume Versus Low-Volume Medical Centers in North Texas. American Journal of Cardiology, octubre 2016.
** Hirst AE Jr, Johns VJ Jr, Kime SW Jr, Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta: A review of 505 cases. Medicine (Baltimore) 1958; 37:217-79.