19 results for “coronary artery dissection”
67y · Female·right coronary artery dissection following angiography stenting and attempted ro…
Margaret Richardson, 67, died from right coronary artery dissection during rotational atherectomy for treatment of occluded coronary artery. She had presen…
67y · Female·Right coronary artery dissection following angiography stenting and attempted ro…
Margaret Richardson, 67, died from right coronary artery dissection during rotational atherectomy on 24 January 2017 at Launceston General Hospital. She ha…
67y · Male·Intracranial haemorrhage complicating coronary artery bypass graft surgery follo…
A 67-year-old man died from intracranial haemorrhage following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. He had suffered a right coronary artery dissection during percutaneous coron…
35y · Female·coronary artery dissection
…he iCCnet protocol requiring cardiologist contact and admission. She collapsed at home 8 hours later with coronary artery dissection causing acute coronary occlusion. The coroner found Dr M. made a serious clinical error…
60y · Male·Ischaemic gut secondary to superior mesenteric artery dissection complicating in…
A 60-year-old man with severe coronary artery disease presented with acute myocardial infarction, requiring emergency stenting and subsequent by…
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 rupture…
57y · Male·large volume ischaemic infarct (stroke)
…e and gait difficulty in May 2013. Imaging at Launceston General Hospital on 30 May demonstrated vertebral artery dissection, but this was not recognised by the reporting radiologist. The dissection was only identified r…
46y · Male·Haemopericardium complicating aortic dissection
…nd attributed ongoing pain to opioid-seeking behaviour, despite no documented opioid use history. Aortic dissection was not adequately considered despite risk factors and classic presentation features. The patient deteri…
49y · Male·haemopericardium secondary to ruptured aortic dissection
Joseph Cardona, 49, died from ruptured aortic dissection with haemopericardium. He presented to the ED twice within 24 hours with severe central chest pain radia…
58y · Male·Haemopericardium secondary to ruptured right coronary artery aneurysm
…ility living in a disability residential unit, died from haemopericardium secondary to rupture of a right coronary artery aneurysm. The aneurysm had been identified on CT imaging in 2011 and was under investigation; he h…
79y · Male·Iatrogenic right ventricular injury complicating drainage of pericardial collect…
…ventricular injury sustained during attempted drainage of a post-operative pericardial effusion following coronary artery bypass grafting. During a minimally invasive sub-xiphoid procedure, the surgeon encountered diffic…
55y · Female·Cardiac tamponade due to haemopericardium due to acute ruptured myocardial infar…
A 55-year-old woman with extensive coronary artery disease presented for elective stent placement to her left anterior descending artery. During the …
61y · Male·cardiac tamponade caused by aortic dissection due to hypertension
…e patient collapsed during the test and died. Post-mortem examination revealed he had suffered an aortic dissection since his initial presentation. The coroner found the death was preventable: adequate consideration of a…
57y · Female·Combined features of moderately stenosed right coronary ostium, aortic valve reg…
…rrhythmia secondary to multiple heart abnormalities including aortic valve disease, mitral valve disease, coronary artery stenosis, and cardiomegaly. She also had known aortic dissection and abdominal aortic aneurysm. He…
74y · Female·haemothorax secondary to dissecting thoracic aorta
…sis 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 considering aortic dissection de…
81y · Female·Severe cardiogenic shock complicating cardiac surgery
…tive haemodynamic instability and inadequate postoperative ICU management. The surgery involved emergency coronary artery bypass grafting and was technically sound, but a small left coronary artery tear of uncertain aeti…
37y · Male·valvular and ischaemic heart disease
…acic surgery at Fiona Stanley Hospital. He had severe aortic regurgitation, left ventricular failure, and coronary artery stenosis diagnosed only three weeks before death. Although his condition developed over 3-5 years …
75y · Male·Multi-organ failure secondary to cardiogenic shock and anterior myocardial infar…
…pital ECGs; failure to escalate despite diagnostic ECG changes; delayed CT aortogram (ordered to exclude dissection); and transfer to the 'cold' zone of ED despite evolving STEMI. PCI was eventually performed >10 hours p…
60y · Male·Haemorrhage complicating a left robotic upper mediastinal lymph node clearance i…
Brett Maybus, aged 60, died from massive haemorrhage following robotic mediastinal lymph node dissection for recurrent metastatic squamous cell carcinoma. The coroner found the fatal bleed was likely caused by…
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