Acute Coronary Syndrome Combined with Aortic Dissection Type A

Abstract

We are presenting a case of Stanford Type a aortic dissection in a 58 year old male patient with history hypertension. He arrived at Emergency Department (ED) with diagnosis acute coronary syndrome a few hours after he developed sudden, severe worsening of his epigastric pain. Interesting case where the separation starts from the orifice of the right coronary artery, occupies the aortic valve.