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Two quick pulsations in the right carotid for every single beat in the left
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aortic dissection
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  • A restatement of footnote 3's message: "We should not be lulled into disregarding the diagnosis of dissection because of equal and symmetric pulses.... Although pulse deficits are a cardinal feature of aortic dissection, they may be transitory because of decompression of the hematoma in the false lumen, with reentry of blood from the dissection channel into the true lumen, or because of movement of an intimal flap away from an occluded orifice." [101]
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    (1) Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta: a new sign.
  Nissim JA.   Br Heart J. 1946;8:203-206.
    (2) Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta: a diagnostic approach.
  Galbraith BT, Norman SL.   N Engl J Med. 1954;250:670-674.
    (3) The clinical recognition of dissecting aortic aneurysm.
  Slater EE, DeSanctis RW.   Am J Med 1976 May 10;60(5):625-33.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
    (-) Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta: a review of 505 cases.
  Hirst AE Jr, Johns VJ, Kime SW.   Medicine. 1958;37:217-279.
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    101.Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 24-1985. A 49-year-old man with a headache followed by collapse and rapid neurologic deterioration.
  N Engl J Med 1985 Jun 13;312(24):1560-7.  Pubmed  Similars
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