A 72-year-old man presented with excruciating epigastric pain. A chest computed tomography angiography revealed an aortic intramural hematoma. A filling defect within the distal ascending aorta was noted. Images of an intramular hematoma and surgical details of an ascending aortic replacement under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest are provided.
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