The River of no Return: Acute Aortic Dissection with Catastrophic Outcome

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Awad Magbri Eussera El-Magbri Kaveh Ilkhanipour Kevin Leonard Michael G Abesamis

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Awad Magbri
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Emergency and Toxicology Departments Pittsburgh, PA and Surgery and Vascular Center at Regency Park Toledo, OH

A B S T R A C T

The authors discuss a case of aortic dissection in a young man with hypertension. The delay in considering the diagnosis and ordering the proper investigations secondary to the unusual presentation of the case complicated by the logistics of patient’s transfer to specialized Cardiothoracic unit where surgery can be performed safely have impacted the unfortunate outcome.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Wed 09, Oct 2019
Accepted: Mon 04, Nov 2019
Published: Mon 30, Dec 2019

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© 2023 Awad Magbri. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JDMC.2019.01.07