33 results for “aortic rupture”
87y · Female·Pulmonary artery rupture complicating pulmonary artery catheter insertion in a w…
Mrs Jones, an 87-year-old woman with severe ischaemic heart disease, died from pulmonary artery rupture during elective off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. A Swan-Ganz pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) was …
16y · Male·Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta
A 16-year-old male died from traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta following a motor vehicle collision. The vehicle left the road and struck trees aft…
65y · Male·ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
…gnosed small cell lung cancer presented to a rural hospital with acute back pain. He had a known abdominal aortic aneurysm (73mm) identified on staging scans. The attending nurse documented elevated blood pressure (195/1…
84y · Male·haemoperitoneum due to ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
Bernard Greenwell, an 84-year-old male, died from rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) while in custody at Cessnock Correctional Centre. He experienced su…
55y · Male·ruptured dissection of the thoracic aorta
Tien Chung Nguyen, a 55-year-old male prisoner, died from rupture of a thoracic aortic dissection during emergency surgery at Royal Perth Hospital. He presented with chest…
59y · Male·Ruptured atherosclerotic abdominal aortic aneurysm (operated)
A 59-year-old man with a non-ruptured 8cm infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) presenting with acute back pain was transferred from Bend…
35y · Male·Fall from a height injuries including a ruptured thoracic aorta associated with …
…nn carpark in Werribee while evading police arrest. He fell 17 metres onto the street below, sustaining a ruptured thoracic aorta and multiple fractures. Post-mortem toxicology revealed markedly elevated methylamphetami…
41y · Male·haemothorax due to ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm in a man with Marfan syndro…
A 41-year-old man with Marfan syndrome and a thoracic aortic aneurysm managed conservatively with blood pressure medications died from aneurysm rupture while imprisone…
19y · Male·traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta with bilateral haemothoraces
A 19-year-old experienced motorcycle racer died from traumatic aortic rupture and bilateral haemothoraces after colliding with a concrete wall at 100 km/h at a racing circuit. …
70y · Male·Hemopericardium due to ruptured aortic dissection contributed to by hypertension
…er with a long-standing history of hypertension and atrial fibrillation, died from hemopericardium due to ruptured aortic dissection. He collapsed with chest pain while at work in the correctional facility and was promp…
78y · Male·Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
A 78-year-old man with coronary artery disease and hypertension died from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm while an involuntary psychiatric inpatient. He had presented with late-onset p…
73y · Male·ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
… tract infection, leading to a diagnosis of UTI and discharge with antibiotics. He died that night from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. All experts agreed that if the AAA had been considered as a differential diag…
67y · Male·Haemopericardium arising from a ruptured aorta (aortic dissection)
John Cribb, a 67-year-old man with known cardiac disease (coronary artery disease, aortic regurgitation, hypertension), died in custody from haemopericardium due to ruptured aortic dissection. He …
80y · Female·Haemoperitoneum/retroperitoneal haematoma due to rupture of the abdominal aorta …
…ypotension, severe anaemia, and metabolic acidosis. Resuscitation failed and she died. Autopsy revealed a ruptured infra-renal abdominal aortic aneurysm with massive haemoperitoneum and retroperitoneal haematoma. The an…
76y · Male·exsanguination secondary to pulmonary aortic fistula and thoracic aorta aneurysm…
Allan Phipps was a 76-year-old man with a known thoracic aortic aneurysm and severe depression admitted to Austin Hospital in October 2012 for unstable angina and depress…
63y · Female·multiple severe trauma from falling tree; specifically aortic transection with m…
…r husband performed immediate CPR and called emergency services within seconds, but her injuries—including aortic transection, bilateral rib fractures, sternal fracture, and torn right atrium—were non-survivable. The cor…
75y · Male·ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
…as diagnosed with musculoskeletal pain and discharged. He collapsed shortly after leaving and died from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. While the death was not preventable due to the time constraints of diagnosis …
85y · Male·Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
An 85-year-old man with known inoperable abdominal aortic aneurysm died from rupture of this aneurysm while hospitalized for acute exacerbation of COPD. A medicatio…
71y · Female·Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, with coronary artery atherosclerosis contrib…
Sandra Cree, a 71-year-old woman, died from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) after undergoing an elective endovascular repair procedure in Brisbane. …
74y · Female·haemothorax secondary to dissecting thoracic aorta
…usculoskeletal pain diagnosis after normal troponins. She was found collapsed at home 12 hours later with ruptured thoracic aortic dissection and haemothorax—a fully preventable death. The critical failure was not consi…
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