Running head: elderly and aortic dissection
Amer Harky MRCS, MSc1,2,3*, Niraj S Kumar
BSc4, William Wang5, Mark Field
DPhil (Oxon), FRCS (C-Th)1,2,3
1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest
Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2. Department of integrative biology, Faculty of Health and life
science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
3. Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool
and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2. University College London Medical School, University College London,
London, United Kingdom
3. Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary
University of London, London, United Kingdom