Successful treatment of aortic rupture presenting as a syncope: the role of echocardiography in diagnosis.
A syncope was the first symptom of aortic rupture in a patient with chronic arterial hypertension. This syncope was the consequence of an acute haemopericardium which resulted in a sudden drop of the cardiac output. Urgent echocardiographic examination in the emergency room made early diagnosis and life-saving pericardiocentesis possible.
D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013575:Syncope / Q000209:etiology*