Insight into the incidence of acute aortic dissection in the German region of Berlin and Brandenburg

Background Stanford acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) is a potentially lethal condition. Epidemiology studies show a statistical incidence in Europe of approximately 2–16 cases/100,000 inhabitants/year. In Germany, the estimated incidence (here subsumed under “thoracic aortic dissection” with 4.63 cases/100,000 inhabitants/year) is mainly extracted from medical death certificates by the German Federal Statistical Office. The prehospital...