Professional paper
Fatal, spontaneous, unknown aortal aneurysm dissection in a woman of 38 weeks’ gestation
Jasna Čerkez Habek
; University Department of Internal Diseases,Cardiovascular Unit, University Hospital „Sveti Duh“, Croatian Catholic University Zagreb, Croatia
Dubravko Habek
; University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital „Sveti Duh“, Croatian Catholic University Zagreb, Croatia
Elizabeta Horvatić
; Department of Pathology, General Hospital Koprivnica, Croatia
Smiljka Behin
; Gynaecology and Obstetrics, General Hospital Koprivnica, Croatia
Abstract
We describe a case of spontaneous dissection of an unknown ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm in a 35year-old woman in her 38th week of pregnancy, resulting in an atypical clinical picture, emergency caesarean section, and lethal outcome in both the mother and child.
Keywords
aortic dissection; pregnancy; caesarean section; perinatal death
Hrčak ID:
170166
URI
Publication date:
1.5.2016.
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