title: Cardiac tamponade - presentation of type A aortic dissection.
abstract: Acute aortic dissection usually presents with severe chest and/or back pain but may have a varied presentation ranging from syncope, stroke, and heart failure to shock or tamponade. We present classic chest computed tomography images of a case of type A aortic dissection presenting with cardiac tamponade.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA, USA; Opeyemi.FadahunsiMD@readinghealth.org.
authors.forename: Opeyemi
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fadahunsi
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Reading Health System, West Reading, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Romeo
keywords: aortic dissection; cardiac tamponade; chest CT scan; clinical image