Reuters Health Features Dr. Roh Yanagida’s Perspective on Study Which Found That Women with Type A Acute Aortic Dissection Had Worse Outcomes Than Men

Roh Yanagida, MD, PhD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, offered insight to Reuters Health about an observational study published in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery which found that women with type A acute aortic dissection were more likely to present late, with complications, and die in the hospital than men. Dr. Yanagida was not involved in the study. MD Alert and Medscape picked up the Reuters Health article.