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Acute aortic dissection during pregnancy
A M Fabricius1, R Autschbach, N Doll
1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Germany. faba@server3.medizin.uni-leipzig.de
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|March 13, 2001
Abstract:
We review the cases of two women with acute aortic dissection during their last trimester of pregnancy who underwent aortic root replacement. One patient with type A dissection had to undergo surgical intervention immediately, and required extracorporal membrane oxygenation for four days. The other patient with a pre-diagnosed Marfan's disease had suffered a type B dissection and had to undergo emergency operation after developing a type A dissection nine days later.