JUST IN: BABAE MUNTIK MAMATAY SA PAKIKIPAG LABING-LABING

JUST IN: BABAE MUNTIK MAMATAY SA PAKIKIPAG LABING-LABING

A woman nearly died after a ‘pop’ in her chest during sex emerged to be a life-threatening medical condition. The 45-year-old had just reached climax when she felt a sharp jolt of pain rush through her body. She and her husband rushed from their home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to the emergency department of their nearest hospital. Staff were told the woman’s legs had been ‘pressed against her chest and during her orgasm she felt a “pop”’ followed by intense heat on her back. She also reported feeling sick and having a shortness of breath. When asked how to rate her pain, the struggling woman ranked it 10/10. She was later discovered to have experienced a form of acute aortic syndrome (AAS), a potentially life-threatening spectrum of conditions. Doctors had discovered a leak in her aorta, a large artery which carries blood through the body, which measured more than an inch in diameter. Woman almost died from an orgasm when artery leaked as she climaxed A scan of the woman’s chest revealed the cause of the mysterious pain (Picture: American Journal of Case Reports) Her case, and others of its kind, call for immediate treatment to avoid death or significant complications. AAS has a high mortality rate, which has been described as increasing 1% for every hour a patient is untreated, and up to 22% of cases are undiagnosed at the time of death. The circumstances surrounding the woman’s diagnosis – the fact it was brought on by sex – has now been explored more fully by scientists in a new journal. Bemused researchers admitted it was ‘not a commonly reported occurrence.’ Researchers stated in the paper: ‘Our case is unusual in that our patient was a woman, who represent a smaller proportion of AAS cases, and she was having consensual sexual intercourse with her husband; however, she had baseline risk factors for AAS, including untreated, uncontrolled hypertension and a history of tobacco abuse.’ It was noted that the woman was a heavy smoker and had around six or seven cigarettes a day. AAS is more common among men – who have on occasion reported their outbreak of pain during sexual intercourse or during masturbation. Scientists say the issue has been reported in ‘some literature’ but remains uncommon.