A surgical treatment for frank rupture of acute type a small intramural hematoma

Daisuke Ueda1, Kosuke Niwa1, Hiroshi Nishikawa1

  • 1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Iseikai Hospital Osaka Japan.

Clinical Case Reports
|August 8, 2022
PubMed

A 71-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital due to cardiac tamponade. Computed tomography revealed that the diameter and wall thickness of the ascending aorta were 36 and 9 mm, respectively. An emergent ascending aortic replacement was performed uneventfully. The pathological findings indicated frank rupture of intramural hematoma.