Vaskulárna medicína 3-4/2017
Type A aortic dissection
This report presents case of the patient coming to acute ambulance of Internal, geriatrics and general medicine clinic for newly appeared chest pain. Aortic dissection type A was found by using imaging methods and acute surgery followed immediately. This case report stresses the necessarity of careful differential diagnostics and urgent solution in patients with this relatively rare diagnosis.
Keywords: chest pain, aortic dissection, arterial hypertension