Chest pain in an adult with truncus arteriosus communis.
We present a case of an adult patient with truncus arteriosus communis and secondary pulmonary hypertension. He had chest pain and sudden death due to cardiac tamponade caused by intramural-limited dissection and rupture of the common trunk.
Gutierrez
Paulo Sampaio
PS
Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil. anppaulo@incor.usp.br
Binotto
Maria Angélica
MA
Aiello
Vera Demarchi
VD
Mansur
Alfredo José
AJ
D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000209:etiology; D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000209:etiology; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous / Q000209:etiology; D014339:Truncus Arteriosus, Persistent / Q000150:complications*