PMID: 3746887Jan 1, 1986Paper

Aortic dissection in a gorilla

Journal of Medical Primatology
Z HrubanS Glagov

Abstract

Autopsy findings in a 39-year-old male gorilla included aortic dissection, internal rupture of the aortic arch with axial direction of the tear, external rupture of the ascending aorta, cardiac tamponade, myocardial hypertrophy, cystic and basophilic degeneration of the aortic media, marked obesity, severe degenerative joint disease, focal glomerulonephritis, and widespread hemosiderosis.

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