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J Am Soc Echocardiogr · Feb 2003
Case Reports Comparative StudyPenetrating aortic atherosclerotic ulcer complicated by periesophageal hematoma.
- Guillermo Crespo, Larry E Jacobs, Suraj Maraj, Fermin Garcia, Nayere Zaeri, and Morris N Kotler.
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA. crespog@einstein.edu
- J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2003 Feb 1; 16 (2): 182-4.
AbstractPenetrating aortic atherosclerotic ulcers have been recently recognized as an entity among the acute aortic syndromes with a potentially fatal outcome. We describe the case of a patient presenting with severe chest pain who died as a result of a thoracic-aorta penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer complicated by a intramural hematoma of the esophagus and stomach, leading to exsanguination. To our knowledge this is the first case reported in the literature of such a complication from penetrating aortic atherosclerotic ulcers.
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