Dissecting aneurysm of arch and descending thoracic aorta presenting as a left sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion

The most common cause of massive hemorrhagic effusion is malignancy. Herein we present a case of dissecting aneurysm of descending thoracic aorta presenting initially with shortness of breath due to left sided massive pleural effusion. Effusion was hemorrhagic in nature with high hematocrit value. C...

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Autores principales: Shamim, Shelley, Thakur, Sumitra Basu, Sengupta, Amitava, Bhattacharyya, Sujit Kumar, Sit, Niranjan
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139725
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.71963
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author Shamim, Shelley
Thakur, Sumitra Basu
Sengupta, Amitava
Bhattacharyya, Sujit Kumar
Sit, Niranjan
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description The most common cause of massive hemorrhagic effusion is malignancy. Herein we present a case of dissecting aneurysm of descending thoracic aorta presenting initially with shortness of breath due to left sided massive pleural effusion. Effusion was hemorrhagic in nature with high hematocrit value. CT scan of thorax with CT angiogram was done and that revealed the diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-29881792010-12-07 Dissecting aneurysm of arch and descending thoracic aorta presenting as a left sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion Shamim, Shelley Thakur, Sumitra Basu Sengupta, Amitava Bhattacharyya, Sujit Kumar Sit, Niranjan Lung India Case Report The most common cause of massive hemorrhagic effusion is malignancy. Herein we present a case of dissecting aneurysm of descending thoracic aorta presenting initially with shortness of breath due to left sided massive pleural effusion. Effusion was hemorrhagic in nature with high hematocrit value. CT scan of thorax with CT angiogram was done and that revealed the diagnosis. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2988179/ /pubmed/21139725 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.71963 Text en © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Shamim, Shelley
Thakur, Sumitra Basu
Sengupta, Amitava
Bhattacharyya, Sujit Kumar
Sit, Niranjan
Dissecting aneurysm of arch and descending thoracic aorta presenting as a left sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion
title Dissecting aneurysm of arch and descending thoracic aorta presenting as a left sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion
title_full Dissecting aneurysm of arch and descending thoracic aorta presenting as a left sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion
title_fullStr Dissecting aneurysm of arch and descending thoracic aorta presenting as a left sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion
title_full_unstemmed Dissecting aneurysm of arch and descending thoracic aorta presenting as a left sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion
title_short Dissecting aneurysm of arch and descending thoracic aorta presenting as a left sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion
title_sort dissecting aneurysm of arch and descending thoracic aorta presenting as a left sided hemorrhagic pleural effusion
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139725
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.71963
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