Key result
Postpartum ascending aortic dissection occurred 5 days after cesarean section in a young woman without Marfan's syndrome.
Highlights the rare but life-threatening occurrence of postpartum aortic dissection even in patients without pre-existing connective tissue diseases like Marfan's syndrome.
Alerts clinicians to rare postpartum aortic dissection without Marfan syndrome; leaves open peripartum risk factors and cesarean association.
Aortic dissection can occur in pregnancy or during the postpartum period without pre-existing disease and it is a rare but potentially life-threatening event. Herein, we present a young woman without Marfan's syndrome who developed a postpartum ascending aortic dissection 5 days after cesarean section.
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Yalçın et al. (2016) studied this question. Postpartum ascending aortic dissection occurred 5 days after cesarean section in a young woman without Marfan's syndrome.
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