Familial aortic dissection in a young woman. A clinical case and review of the literature

Cucchi, G.

Cardiologia 42(2): 211-213

1997


ISSN/ISBN: 0393-1978
PMID: 9138854
Document Number: 471955
A case report of aortic dissecting aneurysm in a 29-years-old woman is described. The father died of rupture of a dissecting aneurysm with acute hemopericardium at the age of 46 years. Histologic examination of the aortic wall revealed a loss of mucopolysaccharide-like material in the media and cystic medial changes. This dramatic familial cluster of aortic dissecting aneurysm suggests a genetically inherited disease although the basic defect remains to be found out.

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