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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/33368| Title: | Dissecting aneurysm associated with pregnancy |
| Authors: | Grech, Edwin S. |
| Keywords: | Aneurysms -- Etiology Aneurysms -- Patients Pregnancy -- Complications Dissecting aortic aneurysms |
| Issue Date: | 1961-08 |
| Publisher: | Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists |
| Citation: | Grech, E. S. (1961). Dissecting aneurysm associated with pregnancy. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 68(4), 682-684. |
| Abstract: | About 1 per cent of all sudden deaths are due to dissecting aneurysm (Mote and Carr, 1942). Hospital records (Wood, 1956), which include relatively few such deaths, give an approximate incidence of one dissecting aneurysm in every 450 necropsies. Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta usually occurs in older individuals, particularly in the presence of hypertension. Men are more susceptible than women with a ratio of 2.5 to 1 (Levinson et al., 1950). However, dissecting aneurysm of the aorta is by no means uncommon in young individuals. It has been pointed out by Schnikter and Bayer (1944) that, when the disease occurs in young females, it is frequently in association with pregnancy. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/33368 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - ERCMedGen |
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