Published: March 25, 2022Received: September 15, 2021Released on J-STAGE: March 25, 2022Accepted: December 01, 2021
Advance online publication: February 04, 2022
Revised: -
There has been no definitive method, other than pathological findings, to identify the degeneration of the tunica media in the aortic wall (TM). We describe how high-resolution intraoperative epiaortic ultrasonographic imaging identifies changes in the TM of patients with aortic dissection. This method shows great promise in facilitating presymptomatic diagnoses of various aortic wall pathologies.