Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm during Pregnancy
- 23 December 1954
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 251 (26), 1059-1061
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195412232512607
Abstract
IN 1944 Schnitker et al.1 reported a case in which a dissecting aortic aneurysm developed on the twelfth post-partum day. They collected 23 cases of this complication in association with pregnancy. Since their article 12 similar cases have been recorded.2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 In the following case the sudden death during pregnancy was due to a dissecting aortic aneurysm.Case ReportA 20-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital in the 3d month of her 1st pregnancy because of sudden onset of nausea, vomiting and headache of 1 day's duration. The headache was throbbing in type and similar, though more intense, to what . . .Keywords
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