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Sudden death due to rupture of an aortic syphilitic aneurysm.

Maksim A Kislov1, Mohit Chauhan2, Konstatin N Krupin3, Olga L Romanova4,5, Roger W Byard6,7.   

Abstract

A 26-year-old man who suddenly collapsed and died was found at autopsy to have a ruptured aortic aneurysm which had the classic "tree bark" appearance of tertiary syphilis. Tracking of blood into the pericardial sac had resulted in sudden death from cardiac tamponade. Serological results were consistent with syphilis and HIV was excluded. Sudden death in a young HIV-negative man from the effects of syphilis is exceedingly rare nowadays.
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Keywords:  Aortic aneurysm; Cardiac tamponade; Hemopericardium; Sudden death; Syphilitic aortitis

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Year:  2021        PMID: 34655042     DOI: 10.1007/s12024-021-00419-4

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Forensic Sci Med Pathol        ISSN: 1547-769X            Impact factor:   2.007


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1.  Surgical considerations in aortitis. Part III: Syphilitic and other forms of aortitis.

Authors:  J M Duncan; D A Cooley
Journal:  Tex Heart Inst J       Date:  1983-12

2.  The incidence of syphilitic aortic aneurysm: with report of its occurrence in a young Negro.

Authors:  A W LEES
Journal:  Glasgow Med J       Date:  1951-04

3.  Syphilitic Aortic Aneurysm in a Young HIV-Infected Man: Case Presentation.

Authors:  Juan Carlos Cataño; Isabel Cristina Ramirez
Journal:  Case Rep Infect Dis       Date:  2011-09-15
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