Abstract

A 57-year-old man went to a hospital complaining of chest pain and was diagnosed with a Stanford Type-A aortic dissection that continued through the aortic arch and descending aorta to the whole abdominal aorta. He therefore underwent graph replacement of the ascending aorta. After 1 month, he experienced dyspnea and came to our hospital. Chest x-ray revealed cardiac enlargement. Transthoracic echocardiogram revealed massive pericardial effusion (PE) but no cardiac tamponade. An enhanced multislice computed tomography …

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