Key result
Autopsy of a 32-year-old woman who died suddenly after intense abdominal pain revealed an almost circumferential aortic dissection with myxoid degeneration of the aortic media.
Population
1 32-year-old woman presenting with intense diffuse abdominal pains, shock, and ventricular fibrillation
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
2 hours after admission
Authors
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Alerts clinicians to aortic dissection in young women with acute pain; leaves open role of myxoid degeneration in pathogenesis.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights a case of sudden death due to spontaneous aortic dissection mimicking acute myocardial infarction, associated with cystic medial degeneration.
Dermengiu et al. (2009) conducted a case report in Spontaneous aortic dissection and cystic medial degeneration (n=1). Autopsy of a 32-year-old woman who died suddenly after intense abdominal pain revealed an almost circumferential aortic dissection with myxoid degeneration of the aortic media.
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