Acute Type A Aortic Dissection in Pregnancy-Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges in a Multidisciplinary Setting

Prakash A Patel; Rohesh J Fernando; Emily J MacKay; Jeongae Yoon; Jacob T Gutsche; Saumil Patel; Ronak Shah; Jillian Dashiell; Stuart J Weiss; Lee Goeddel; Adam S Evans; Jared W Feinman; John G Augoustides

doi:10.1053/j.jvca.2018.01.035

Acute Type A Aortic Dissection in Pregnancy-Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges in a Multidisciplinary Setting

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2018 Aug;32(4):1991-1997. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2018.01.035. Epub 2018 Jan 31.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
² Cardiothoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
³ Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Lewis School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
⁴ Divisions of Cardiac Anesthesia and Adult Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
⁶ Cardiovascular and Thoracic Section, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 29519602
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2018.01.035

No abstract available

Keywords: Cesarean section; acute type A aortic dissection; aortic wall stress; cardiopulmonary bypass; computed tomography; estrogen; fetal viability; hypothermic circulatory arrest; imaging artifacts; magnetic resonance imaging; motion artifact; multidisciplinary team; placental perfusion; postpartum hemorrhage; pregnancy; pulsatile perfusion; transesophageal echocardiography; trimester.

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Adult
Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / diagnostic imaging
Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / surgery*
Aortic Dissection / diagnostic imaging
Aortic Dissection / surgery*
Female
Fetal Monitoring / methods*
Humans
Patient Care Team*
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / diagnostic imaging
Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / surgery*