A Painless Thoracic Aortic Dissection

A Painless Thoracic Aortic Dissection

Thoracic aortic dissection (TAD) has a very high mortality rate and is often missed due to the atypical presentation of patients. We present a case of a man with chronic hypertension, atrial fibrillation (AF) (on regular warfarin) and a previous endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), who presented wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Youssef Mahmoud, Tamer Shalaby, Nazia Rashid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SMC MEDIA SRL 2016-09-01
Series:European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Subjects:
Thoracic Aortic Dissection, CT Aortogram, D-dimer, EVAR
Online Access:http://ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/443
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Summary:Thoracic aortic dissection (TAD) has a very high mortality rate and is often missed due to the atypical presentation of patients. We present a case of a man with chronic hypertension, atrial fibrillation (AF) (on regular warfarin) and a previous endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), who presented with dyspepsia and was incidentally found to have a ruptured distal thoracic aneurysm on imaging with no obvious clinical signs on examination, nor abnormalities on admission chest x-ray (CXR).
ISSN:2284-2594

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