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How long does an aortic dissection take to develop? minutes? hours?
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Minutes to hours: Develops over minutes and progresses over several hours and sometime days.
Answered 7/4/2012
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Seconds: Aortic dissection is a sudden onset disease occurring in seconds but it can progress to involve other segments of the aorta or its branches over minutes, hours or even months when not treated.
Answered 3/22/2015
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