Catastrophic CPR-Related Injuries in Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: A Case Report and Review.

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.