Two Cases of Catastrophic AAA Rupture in Young Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

We present two cases of young women with a past medical history significant for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), who presented to the Emergency Department with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). These cases are of particular interest because the patients did not fit the typical demograph...

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Autores principales: Noorvash, David, King, Kevin, Gebrael, Meera
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6165616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1049568
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description We present two cases of young women with a past medical history significant for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), who presented to the Emergency Department with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). These cases are of particular interest because the patients did not fit the typical demographic for patients who present with a ruptured AAA. Based on these cases and a review of the relevant literature, ED providers should maintain a higher index of suspicion for AAA rupture in patients with autoimmune diseases, especially SLE.
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spelling pubmed-61656162018-10-10 Two Cases of Catastrophic AAA Rupture in Young Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Noorvash, David King, Kevin Gebrael, Meera Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report We present two cases of young women with a past medical history significant for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), who presented to the Emergency Department with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). These cases are of particular interest because the patients did not fit the typical demographic for patients who present with a ruptured AAA. Based on these cases and a review of the relevant literature, ED providers should maintain a higher index of suspicion for AAA rupture in patients with autoimmune diseases, especially SLE. Hindawi 2018-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6165616/ /pubmed/30305965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1049568 Text en Copyright © 2018 David Noorvash et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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