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Coronary artery aneurysm rupture mimicking dissection of the thoracic aorta
K M Channon1, A P Banning, C H Davies
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, UK. keith.channon@cardiov.ox.ac.uk
International Journal of Cardiology
|August 12, 1998
Abstract:
Acute dissection of the ascending aorta may present with chest pain and haemopericardium. The following case illustrates an unusual differential diagnosis: rupture of a very large coronary artery aneurysm, diagnosed by transoesophageal echocardiography.