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A Case of Chronic Aortic Dissection With Hemopericardium and Tamponade
Athanasios Pavlou1,2, Laura Cardenas Ramos1,2, Martin Vanek1,2
1Internal Medicine, St. Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport, USA.
Abstract:
Type A aortic dissection involves the separation of the wall of the ascending aorta into a true lumen and a false lumen. The finding of an aortic dissection in a patient experiencing mild to moderate symptoms for several weeks may be surprising for clinicians, given the severity of the underlying process. Here, we present an 88-year-old patient who was admitted to our hospital due to orthopnea and leg swelling for the past two to three weeks and was found to have a chronic dissection of the ascending aorta, complicated by hemopericardium and tamponade. The existing literature very rarely reports chronic type A aortic dissection with tamponade on presentation.
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