Acute aortic dissection in the Marfan syndrome during the COVID-19 epidemic

Abstract

A 17-year-old boy with a recent diagnosis of COVID-19 infection was admitted with acute chest pain due to type A aortic dissection and was subsequently diagnosed with the Marfan syndrome. Literature shows an increased rate of aortic dissection during flu season. The hypothesis is that a cytokine storm triggers the dissection.

Keywords:

• Aortic aneurysm
• aortic dissection
• COVID-19
• Marfan syndrome

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL

A CT angiogram video of the chest (left) at presentation, showing an 8.8 cm fusiform ascending aortic aneurysm with aortic dissection and (right) after aneurysm repair with a 30 mm Gelweave side branch graft.