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SUBMITTER: Lambelin M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4083777 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Case reports in cardiology 20140616
Dissection of the ascending aorta is a very rare but life-threatening complication during diagnostic angiography. We present a case of an elderly woman who underwent an elective diagnostic coronary angiography, complicated with an iatrogenic ascending aorta dissection that did not involve the coronary arteries but originated 4 cm distal of the aortic valve. The patient developed cardiogenic shock due to acute pericardial tamponade and so immediate, life-saving cardiac surgery with implantation o ...[more]