Painless acute aortic dissection presenting as echocardiographically diagnosed left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
We present an unusual case of painless acute aortic dissection with an atypical echocardiographic presentation that could be confused with an aortic stenosis. Transesophageal echocardiography excluded the presence of aortic stenosis and disclosed a systolic anterior movement of the mitral valve as the cause of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. It also revealed a type A aortic dissection.
Ascione
Luigi
L
Division of Cardiology, S. Maria di Loreto Hospital. lascio@tin.it
Accadia
Maria
M
Damiano
Lucia
L
Rumolo
Salvatore
S
De Michele
Mario
M
Tuccillo
Bernardino
B
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*