Basic med

[Tpg]

Not so familiar with the medical terminology, but does an infrarenal aortic dissection, that’s obviously being monitored, (for certain reasons the doctors felt no reason to do surgery and best to just let it wait with follow ups annually) count as a coronary heart disease?
The applicant had a third class that he let expire, and after it expired he experienced the dissection. (The question being, is infrarenal considered coronary)

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Fellas - when one has an Aortic dissection he has by definition, atherosclerotic vascular disease..

May be a common cause of the dissection, but I don’t understand how it is so by definition. Atherosclerotic means plaques with hardening and narrowing. Would one count the possible narrowing in a dissection that way?

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Agreed that plaques can lead to a dissection. But aren’t there other causes? Traumatic injury, high blood pressure, iatrogenic? If so, we don’t really know in the case of the OP.

Definitely a serious condition and it strikes me one would have to be very sure of cause and stability before thinking it safe to fly.