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Aortic Rupture in a Heart Transplant Patient Following Recent Blunt Aortic Trauma
Author(s) -
Firstenberg Michael S.,
Hasan Ayesha,
Abel Erik,
Blais Danielle,
Sun Benjamin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2009.00959.x
Subject(s) - medicine , blunt , cardiology , aortic rupture , blunt trauma , aorta , surgery , aortic aneurysm
We report a case of a patient who developed an aortic dissection with rupture. This presumably was a delayed injury following blunt thoracic trauma and highlights that concerns for aortic pathology even in this patient population.(J Card Surg 2010;25:240‐242)