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European Journal of Echocardiography 2008 9(1):97-98; doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.03.027
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Real-time imaging of dissection of the ascending aorta

Stefano Gasperini, Valerio Zacà* and Sergio Mondillo

Department of Cardiology, University of Siena, Viale Bracci 1, 53100 Siena, Italy

Received 13 January 2007; accepted after revision 16 March 2007; online publish-ahead-of-print 10 May 2007.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +39 0577 585379; fax: +39 0577 233112. E-mail address: valezeta{at}libero.it


  Abstract

We report the case of a 72-year-old woman referred for evaluation of a chest and back pain in whom we documented the dramatic progression from intramural hematoma to dissection of the ascending aorta with cardiac tamponade.

Keywords: Transesophageal echocardiography; Intramural hematoma; Aortic dissection; Cardiac tamponade


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