Aortic dissection in a non-marfanoid child.
A nine year old girl presented with chest pain and dyspnoea of sudden onset. She had no marfanoid features, with a normal slit lamp examination and a normal aortic valve on echocardiography. The diagnosis of dissecting aneurysm of the ascending aorta involving the aortic valve cusps, the right coronary artery and the pericardium was later established with the help of ECG, pericardiocentesis, echocardiography and aortography.
Panja
M
M
Department of Cardiology, Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Calcutta.
Kumar
S
S
Panja
S
S
Dutta
B
B
D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001011:Aorta; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography