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A young pregnant woman experienced a fatal acute aortic dissection with multiple intimal tears, resulting in circulatory collapse and death during labor.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights the need for high clinical suspicion of acute aortic dissection in pregnant women presenting with circulatory collapse, even without typical risk factors.
May warrant suspicion for aortic dissection in peripartum collapse without typical risks; hypothesis-generating from single case report.
Acute aortic dissection in pregnancy is a rare condition with a potentially catastrophic outcome. The low rate of incidence together with variable presenting features in such circumstances makes diagnosis elusive. A high degree of clinical suspicion and diagnostic acumen is especially required in pregnant women without any history of connective tissue disorder, congenital aortic valvular malformation, or chronic hypertension. In this report, we present a case of aortic dissection with multiple aortic intimal tears in a medicolegal autopsy of a young pregnant woman who developed circulatory collapse and died during labor.
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Nath et al. (2013) conducted a case report in Acute aortic dissection in pregnancy (n=1). A young pregnant woman experienced a fatal acute aortic dissection with multiple intimal tears, resulting in circulatory collapse and death during labor.
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