Standing tall after DeBakey Type I aortic dissection extending to left iliac artery.

ABSTRACT: This report describes DeBakey Type I aortic dissection in a middle-aged hypertensive female who had undergone mitral tissue valve replacement a decade previously. The patient had severe abrupt onset tearing pain in her throat, back, and chest, for which she got admitted in a community hospital, where because of no changes in her ECG and biomarkers, the dissection of aorta was missed. She was subjected to coronary angiography more than 6 weeks later for pain in her left shoulder, which demonstrated normal vessels. She then underwent multi-detector computerised tomography aortogram (MD CTA) that revealed aortic dissection involving ascending, the arch, and descending thoracic and abdominal aorta. The patient declined surgical intervention and has been provided medical therapy in the form of

SUBMITTER: Natarajan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4699948 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature