Masturbating caused the man’s otherwise healthy coronary artery to tear OPEN… and the warning signs were worryingly vague

Masturbation caused a potentially fatal heart complication in a 59-year-old man, leaving doctors concerned and baffled.

According to medics who treated the New Yorker, the self-pleasure session caused a tear in his aorta – the artery that carries blood from the heart to the body.

Such events are considered a medical emergency, killing up to a third of people unlucky enough to suffer them.

Unusually, the man did not experience chest pain, shortness of breath, loss of consciousness or nausea, as would be expected.

Instead, shortly after masturbating, he experienced “light-headedness, a tingling sensation in both hands, and a tense jaw,” a medical examiner said. report explains about the case.

Such events are considered a medical emergency, killing up to a third of people unlucky enough to suffer from them

Worryingly, the man had completed a three-mile job the day before, suggesting he was physically fit before the event.

The report, published in the journal Clinic and Experimental Emergency Medicine, goes on to say that after suffering from the vague symptoms, he “decided to lie down and experienced an episode of urinary incontinence.”

At that moment he called an ambulance.

At the hospital, tests showed he suffered from extremely low blood pressure and a slow pulse.

Fearing he was suffering from sepsis – a potentially fatal immune system response to infection – doctors immediately prescribed antibiotics.

Although his symptoms improved, he began to experience dizziness while trying to walk and was admitted for further cardiac tests.

Ultimately, an ultrasound revealed the real cause: an acute aortic dissection type A, also called a ruptured aorta.

He underwent emergency surgery for an aortic graft replacement, in which the torn portion of the aorta was removed and replaced with a sturdy, flexible tube implant.

He is believed to have made a full recovery.

It is not clear why masturbation caused the fracture, but the report confirms that the vague symptoms he suffered were ‘unusual’.

‘About 6.4 percent of aortic dissections occur without chest pain; as such, painless dissections are atypical phenomena that are more likely to be associated with increased mortality,” the report continued.

A similar case of a 60-year-old man with high blood pressure, called Liddle syndrome, who suffered an acute aortic dissection after masturbating, was reported last year.

The prognosis for people suffering from acute aortic dissection type A is often bleak.

At least 30 percent of patients even die after the operation and survive only ten days.

For those who survive, the risk of organ failure, stroke, amputation – due to circulatory problems – and intestinal problems, among other things, is greater.

The patient in question had previously been diagnosed with IgG4-related disease.

The inflammatory condition causes damage to many organs in the body and he too suffered from it high blood pressure, kidney disease and pacreatitis.

He also took long-term steroids to control his health problems.

It is unclear whether this condition or the medication led to his aortic dissection, but the medics wrote: ‘This case reinforces that an aortic dissection can present without pain, including the classic presentation of tearing chest pain or back pain.

‘Emergency physicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for aortic syndrome in all emergency department patients, especially those with IgG4-related disease, and consider atypical presentations and manifestations of aortic dissection.’

Last year, a similar case was reported of a 60-year-old man with a high blood pressure condition called Liddle syndrome who suffered an acute aortic dissection after masturbating.

In that case, the patient sought medical help when he experienced a ‘ripping’ chest pain that started when he started pleasuring himself – while smoking cannabis.

Research has shown that one in ten young men with Liddle syndrome – a genetic problem that causes the pressure in the aorta to be very high – can suffer an aortic rupture.

Marijuana use has been shown to increase heart rate and blood pressure and is independently associated with an increased risk of aortic dissection.