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Lint: ascending-aorta

Adjectival Hyphens
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"a prominent ascending aorta in a young patient, particularly when combined with signs of left ventricular hypertrophy, should raise the possibility of congenital aortic stenosis with post-stenotic dilatation 5,6"

Line 19:205 · Only use medical adjectival hyphens where the letters at the end and start of the compound word are the same, e.g. post-transplant. In this case, don't use the hyphen: 'post-stenotic'.
List Caps
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"Stanford type A aortic dissection"

Line 25:11 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.
Semicolons
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"the right superior mediastinal border is normally formed by the superior vena cava; the ascending aorta contributes to this border only when it is ectatic or dilated, typically in older patients 1,4,6"

Line 18:90 · Use semicolons judiciously.