title: Case Report: A Patient with Acute Cardiac Tamponade Secondary to Complicated Stanford Type A Intramural Haematoma - the role of CT.
abstract: Chest pain is a common presenting complaint in the emergency room of which acute aortic syndrome is a sinister cause associated with high morbidity. A contrastenhanced CT aortogram is often performed for initial evaluation at the first instance of suspicion. We present a patient with Stanford Type A intramural haematoma complicated by haemopericardium and acute cardiac tamponade and highlight the relevant CT signs that would alert the managing physician to urgent echocardiogram correlation and emergent cardiothoracic intervention.
authors.affiliation: National University Hospital, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Singapore. pohfeng@gmail.com.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Poh
authors.affiliation: National University Hospital, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Singapore.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Chow