A Postpartum Type A Dissection

A 28-year-old woman with familial thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection syndrome and a mildly dilated aorta presented 3 days postpartum with a type A aortic dissection. This case illustrates the unpredictability of this disease and the challenges with risk stratification of women with underlying a...

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Main Authors: Gnalini Sathananthan, MD, Valerie Rychel, MD, Jennifer Yam, MD, Amanda Barlow, MD, Jasmine Grewal, MD, Marla Kiess, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:JACC: Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666084919306199