Highlights that type A aortic dissection can present atypically with cardiac tamponade, emphasizing the need for broad differential diagnosis in such presentations.
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Type A dissection may present with tamponade; single case leaves diagnostic changes open.
Acute aortic dissection usually presents with severe chest and/or back pain but may have a varied presentation ranging from syncope, stroke, and heart failure to shock or tamponade. We present classic chest computed tomography images of a case of type A aortic dissection presenting with cardiac tamponade.
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