Rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm as a cause of sudden death

An 84-year-old female patient was brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers were performed but were unsuccessful. The patient had a past medical history of systemic arterial hypertension with target-organ lesions, including stroke and myocardial i...

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Autores principales: de Freitas, Cristielle Peres, Petrini, Carla Andrade, Araújo, Ramon Souza Goes, Lima, Luiz Guilherme Cernaglia Aureliano, Picciarelli de Lima, Patrícia, Duarte-Neto, Amaro Nunes
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2016
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Article / Autopsy Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27818955
http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2016.044
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author de Freitas, Cristielle Peres
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Duarte-Neto, Amaro Nunes
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Petrini, Carla Andrade
Araújo, Ramon Souza Goes
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description An 84-year-old female patient was brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers were performed but were unsuccessful. The patient had a past medical history of systemic arterial hypertension with target-organ lesions, including stroke and myocardial infarction. The autopsy was carried out, and the most striking finding was cardiac tamponade due to the rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm at the site of a complex atheromatous plaque. Rupture is the most serious complication of a thoracic aneurysm and must be considered in the differential diagnosis of sudden death.
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spelling pubmed-50879802016-11-04 Rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm as a cause of sudden death de Freitas, Cristielle Peres Petrini, Carla Andrade Araújo, Ramon Souza Goes Lima, Luiz Guilherme Cernaglia Aureliano Picciarelli de Lima, Patrícia Duarte-Neto, Amaro Nunes Autops Case Rep Article / Autopsy Case Report An 84-year-old female patient was brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers were performed but were unsuccessful. The patient had a past medical history of systemic arterial hypertension with target-organ lesions, including stroke and myocardial infarction. The autopsy was carried out, and the most striking finding was cardiac tamponade due to the rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm at the site of a complex atheromatous plaque. Rupture is the most serious complication of a thoracic aneurysm and must be considered in the differential diagnosis of sudden death. São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2016-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5087980/ /pubmed/27818955 http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2016.044 Text en Autopsy and Case Reports. ISSN 2236-1960. Copyright © 2016. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the article is properly cited.
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Petrini, Carla Andrade
Araújo, Ramon Souza Goes
Lima, Luiz Guilherme Cernaglia Aureliano
Picciarelli de Lima, Patrícia
Duarte-Neto, Amaro Nunes
Rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm as a cause of sudden death
title Rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm as a cause of sudden death
title_full Rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm as a cause of sudden death
title_fullStr Rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm as a cause of sudden death
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title_short Rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm as a cause of sudden death
title_sort rupture of an ascending aortic aneurysm as a cause of sudden death
topic Article / Autopsy Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5087980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27818955
http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2016.044
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