Acute Aortic Dissection in Monozygotic Twins Presenting Within Days: A Case Report
Taysir Al Janabi, Warren Weber, Michael N Vranian, Rahul Kashyap, Avram Flamm · 2025
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Description
Taysir Al Janabi and four co-authors describe identical twins whose aortas tore within three days of each other, in a 2025 case report. Aortic dissection, a rip in the wall of the body's main artery, is a dire emergency. Twin cases are rare, and none had been reported in identical twins presenting days apart.
A man of thirty came in after nearly fainting. Scans showed a dissection together with a heart attack of the lower heart wall. His twin brother had undergone repair of the same kind of dissection three days earlier. The patient received an emergency graft of the ascending aorta plus bypass surgery, and recovered after a complicated course. The authors suspect a timed genetic mechanism behind the near-simultaneous events. They also stress keeping dissection in mind when family history points that way.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Taysir Al Janabi, Warren Weber, Michael N Vranian, Rahul Kashyap, Avram Flamm |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 11 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |