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Title: Traumatic ascending aortic transection with pseudo-aneurysm
Author(s): ALBRECHT, Carlos A. , PEPPER, Gregory , FUENTES, Francisco
Journal: Acta Cardiologica
Volume: 58    Issue: 2   Date: April 2003   
Pages: 163-164
DOI: 10.2143/AC.58.2.2005271

Abstract :
We present a 64-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency department after suffering a motor vehicle accident, involving multiple soft tissue and bone trauma. Even though she was free from cardiovascular symptoms for the last three years, her past medical history of aorto-coronary bypass surgery prompted preoperative consultation.The diagnostic images showed a unique visualization of an ascending aortic traumatic pseudoaneurysm by transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiogram as well as with cardiac catheterization.