Vascular Pathology: Aortic dissection: Cardiac tamponade

A 1969 autopsy specimen from a 64 year old man who collapsed in his GP's surgery with severe retrosternal pain, he then lost consciousness was incontinent and died. At...
01 May 2011
Presented bySebastian Lucas.

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Aortic rupture with dissection

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A 1969 autopsy specimen from a 64 year old man who collapsed in his GP's surgery with severe retrosternal pain, he then lost consciousness was incontinent and died. At autopsy, a limited dissection of the ascending aorta which had ruptured into the pericardial cavity causing acute cardiac tamponade, was found.

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