Aortic Dissection Presenting as Leg Pain

A female in her mid-sixties presented to the emergency department with the chief complaint of leg pain. After evaluation, she was found to have a rapidly progressing aortic dissection resulting in an occlusion of the right common iliac artery. The authors highlight the variable presentations of acut...

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Autores principales: George, Nathan, Ganti, Latha, Falgiani, Michael, Desai, Bobby
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32637271
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8389
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description A female in her mid-sixties presented to the emergency department with the chief complaint of leg pain. After evaluation, she was found to have a rapidly progressing aortic dissection resulting in an occlusion of the right common iliac artery. The authors highlight the variable presentations of acute aortic dissection, beyond classic tearing chest pain. 
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spelling pubmed-73318952020-07-06 Aortic Dissection Presenting as Leg Pain George, Nathan Ganti, Latha Falgiani, Michael Desai, Bobby Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery A female in her mid-sixties presented to the emergency department with the chief complaint of leg pain. After evaluation, she was found to have a rapidly progressing aortic dissection resulting in an occlusion of the right common iliac artery. The authors highlight the variable presentations of acute aortic dissection, beyond classic tearing chest pain.  Cureus 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7331895/ /pubmed/32637271 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8389 Text en Copyright © 2020, George et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Aortic Dissection Presenting as Leg Pain
title Aortic Dissection Presenting as Leg Pain
title_full Aortic Dissection Presenting as Leg Pain
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title_short Aortic Dissection Presenting as Leg Pain
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topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331895/
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