Dissection.The wall of your aorta has three layers. A dissection is when you get a tear in the innermost layer, which allows blood to flow between the layers. This can keep blood from getting to your organs like it's supposed to. Rupture.A tear through all three layers of the aortic w...
These cases emphasize the potential role of echocardiography for the diagnosis and the management of several extracardiac mediastinal abnormalities.Key Words: Transthoracic echocardiography, aortic dissection, Boerhaave syndrome, oesophageal tumourLaura Anghel...
Aortic dissection was suspected, and she underwent computed tomography of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis using an aortic protocol. The scan showed a pneumomediastinum with an associated pneumothorax and a right sided pleural effusion. Further radiological investigation was performed (fig 1). ### ...
you had a set of pharyngeal arches that didn’t look radically different from those of a primitive fish. These started out quite small, tucked up underneath your comparatively immense brain, and each pharyngeal arch was served by a loop of artery called an aortic arch. What we call the arch...
valve-sparing root replacement, whereas increased retrograde flow and helicity were more prominent in these patients compared with healthy controls. It is unknown if such changes alter aortic wall stress and lead to long-term effects, such as dilatation of the aortic arch or risk of dissection.[...
Answer —Acute coronary syndrome; pulmonary embolism; aortic dissection; and tension pneumothorax. His blood panel showed no evidence of cardiac necrosis (troponin <0.04 μg/l), although the electrocardiogram had some irregularities—T wave inversion in aVL, ST elevation in V1, and ST depression ...