This report documents a case of completely spontaneous ascending aortic disruption. A 54-year-old African American male day laborer presented with severe retro-sternal chest and back pain and shortness of breath. He had no history of hypertension, smoking, or trauma and was taking no medications. The computed tomographic angiography scan performed to exclude pulmonary embolism instead demonstrated a hemorrhagic pericardial effusion and an ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm. He was taken emergently to the operating room for repair of his ascending aorta. The histopathology report was normal.
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