Successful management of acute type A aortic dissection in late pregnancy: a case report
Huang Luyang, Yuan Li, Shao Yan, He Zongzhao · 2026
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Description
Huang and co-authors recount saving two lives in sequence. A 31-year-old woman at 38 weeks of pregnancy arrived with tearing chest pain from a type A aortic dissection, a rip in the body's main artery. Their 2026 case report describes imaging that confirmed the tear from the ascending aorta into the arch, with the right coronary artery involved and the aortic root stretched to 40 millimeters.
The team delivered a healthy baby girl by emergency cesarean first, with strong Apgar scores of 9, 9, and 10. They then embolized the uterine arteries to guard against bleeding before replacing the torn aorta in a Bentall operation with a coronary bypass. The mother went home on day 14 after surgery and showed sound aortic remodeling at two months. Published mortality for this emergency runs near 12% for mothers and 28% for babies.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Huang Luyang, Yuan Li, Shao Yan, He Zongzhao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |