Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 2

A Case Report of sudden Death Due to Rupture of syphilitic Aneurysm of the Ascending Aorta

1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology), BKL Walawalkar Medical College, Sawarde. Ta Chiplun Dist Ratnagiri

2Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Govt. Medical College, Mumbai

*Corresponding Author: Dr. Avinash H. Waghmode Assistant Professor Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology) BKL Walawalkar Medical College, Sawarde. Ta Chiplun Dist Ratnagiri Mobile: 09922157611 Email: avinashw4@gmail.com

Online published on 21 July, 2018.

Abstract

Syphilitic aortic aneurysm is a rare occurrence in the antibiotic era, making the diagnose assumption even more infrequent. Though there is availability of modern diagnostic modalities, many of the cases remain unnoticed. Nonetheless, this pathology can appear and should be suspected in patients with aortic aneurysm. We report a case of a 40-year old patient who was brought dead with history of sudden death and, in the following autopsy examination; we noticed a rupture of large aneurysm of intrapericardial portion of ascending aorta leading to cardiac tamponade.

Keywords

Syphilitic aortic aneurysm, Cardiac tamponade, vasa vasorum