Affiliation:
1. Department of Pathology, San Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX
2. From Forensic Pathology Investigations, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System, Dover, DE.
Abstract
Abstract
This article presents a case of severe CPR-related injuries leading to diagnosis of vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The subject is a 36-year-old female with a past medical history of a 10-mm aneurysm of the right internal carotid artery discovered on imaging 3 years prior to death. Major autopsy findings included subarachnoid hemorrhage in the base of the brain, bilateral hemothoraces, hemopericardium, laceration of the interatrial septum, laceration of the left pulmonary artery, and changes secondary to chronic alveolar hemorrhage in the lungs. The autopsy findings and subsequent unremarkable toxicology studies led to the suspicion of an underlying and clinically undiagnosed connective tissue disorder. Broad genetic exome testing revealed a mutation consistent with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. An overview of this disease, its diagnosis, and differential are further described herein, along with recommendations for forensic pathologists.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
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