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Recognizing Intercostal Retractions. Your intercostal muscles are attached to your ribs, and they normally contract and move your ribs up when you breathe in air. At the same time, your diaphragm drops lower, and your lungs fill with air. When you have a partial blockage in your upper airway or the small airways in your lungs, air cannot flow freely and the pressure in this part of your body decreases. As a result, your intercostal muscles are sucked in sharply inside your rib cage. These movements are called retractions. Intercostal retractions occur when the muscles between your ribs are pulled inward. This is also called intercostal recession. These movements indicate that something is blocking your airway.
Aortic dissection is a serious condition in which there is a tear in the wall of the major artery carrying blood out of the heart (aorta). As the tear extends along the wall of the aorta, blood can flow in between the layers of the blood vessel wall (dissection). This can lead to aortic rupture or decreased blood flow (ischemia) to organs. Causes. When it leaves the heart, the aorta first moves up through the chest towards the head (the ascending aorta). It then bends or arches, and finally moves down through the chest and abdomen (the descending aorta). Aortic dissection most often happens because of a tear or damage to the inner wall of the aorta.