Sudden death due to aortic rupture while swimming: A case report.

ABSTRACT

An eleven year old, healthy boy with no past history of illness suddenly felt acute excruciating chest pain which was radiating to back, while he was swimming in a private swimming pool. He was immediately transferred to a hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. Autopsy and histopathological findings were suggestive of death was due to extensive advential haemorrhge due to inherent weakness in aortic wall.