<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Aortic intramural haematoma (AIH) is a rarely recognized disease characterized by a sudden haemorrhage into aortic media in the absence of any intimal tear. The clinical evolution and mortality rates of AIH are similar to those of acute aortic dissection. However, in the acute clinical care of patients presenting with chest pain of aortic origin, it is important to differentiate intramural haematoma from aortic dissection. A case of an elderly patient with an intramural hematoma (IMH), which progressed to very large dimensions and involved the entire aortic wall, resulting in fatal complications is presented here.</p></abstract>

Aortic intramural haematoma (AIH) is a rarely recognized disease characterized by a sudden haemorrhage into aortic media in the absence of any intimal tear. The clinical evolution and mortality rates of AIH are similar to those of acute aortic dissection. However, in the acute clinical care of patients presenting with chest pain of aortic origin, it is important to differentiate intramural haematoma from aortic dissection. A case of an elderly patient with an intramural hematoma (IMH), which progressed to very large dimensions and involved the entire aortic wall, resulting in fatal complications is presented here.

A Massive Aortic Intramural Haematoma – an Aortic Emergency

Center of Advanced Research in Multimodality Cardiac Imaging, Cardio Med Medical Center, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania, 76, 22 Decembrie 1989 St, 540124

Center of Advanced Research in Multimodality Cardiac Imaging, Cardio Med Medical Center, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania 76, 22 decembrie 1989 St 540124

Clinic of Cardiology, County Clinical Emergency Hospital, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania 76, 22 Decembrie 1989 St, 540124

Clinic of Cardiology, County Clinical Emergency Hospital, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania, 38 Gheorghe Marinescu St, 540139

Clinic of Cardiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tirgu Mures, Romania, 38 Gheorghe Marinescu St, 540139

Journal of Cardiovascular Emergencies

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Aortic intramural haematoma (AIH) is a rarely recognized disease characterized by a sudden haemorrhage into aortic media in the absence of any intimal tear....

A Massive Aortic Intramural Haematoma – an Aortic Emergency

Published Online: Jun 03, 2016

Page range: 32 - 36

Received: Aug 28, 2015

Accepted: Nov 16, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jce-2016-0006

Keywords
aortic hematoma, intramural, aortic syndrome

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A Massive Aortic Intramural Haematoma – an Aortic Emergency

Published Online: Jun 03, 2016

Page range: 32 - 36

Received: Aug 28, 2015

Accepted: Nov 16, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jce-2016-0006

Keywordsaortic hematoma, intramural, aortic syndrome

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
aortic hematoma, intramural, aortic syndrome