Stern Lily K, Cuk Natasha, Marano Paul J, Kwan Alan C, Song Evelyn J, Megna Dominick J, Cheng Susan
Department of Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
JACC Case Rep. 2021 Oct 20;3(14):1617-1621. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.08.002.
Penetrating aortic ulcers typically occur in severely diseased vessels. We present the case of a 46-year-old woman, without extensive atherosclerosis, who had sudden cardiac arrest related to ischemia from a mobile intraluminal aortic thrombus adherent to a penetrating ulcer in the ascending aorta. ().