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Task Force Report

Diagnosis and management of aortic dissection

Task Force on Aortic Dissection, European Society of Cardiology

R. Erbel, Chairmanf1,f2, F. Alfonso, C. Boileau, O. Dirsch, B. Eber, A. Haverich, H. Rakowski, J. Struyven, K. Radegran, U. Sechtem, J. Taylor, Ch. Zollikofer, W.W. Klein, Internal reviewer, B. Mulder, Internal reviewer and L.A. Providencia, Internal reviewer

Received April 24, 2001; accepted May 2, 2001

f1 This document has been reviewed by members of the Committee for Scientific and Clinical Initiatives and by members of the Board of the European Society of Cardiology (see Appendix 2), who approved the document in the year 2001. The document received the ACC Endorsement by the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology in the year 2001 (see Appendix 3).The full text of this document is available on the website of the European Society of Cardiology in the section ‘Scientific Information’, Guidelines and the ACC is listing the document under ‘ACC Endorsement’ on their website with a link to the ESC website.

f2 For affiliations of Task Force Member see Appendix 1.

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