An Atypical Presentation of Severe Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm: A Case Report and Literature Review

A 55-year-old male patient with no past medical history presents to the ED to complain of exertional dyspnea and bilateral lower limb swelling. The patient was diagnosed with a severe dissecting aortic aneurysm on trans-thoracic echocardiography and later confirmed by a contrast CT aortogram. The pa...

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Autores principales: Mowafy, Ahmed, Rath, Payal, Eladly, Ahmed, Omran, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8289394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34290930
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15752
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description A 55-year-old male patient with no past medical history presents to the ED to complain of exertional dyspnea and bilateral lower limb swelling. The patient was diagnosed with a severe dissecting aortic aneurysm on trans-thoracic echocardiography and later confirmed by a contrast CT aortogram. The patient was immediately started on anti-impulse therapy with labetalol infusion and underwent emergent aortic dissection repair. This case demonstrates an atypical presentation of a life-threatening condition that might have been missed on the initial assessment.
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spelling pubmed-82893942021-07-20 An Atypical Presentation of Severe Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm: A Case Report and Literature Review Mowafy, Ahmed Rath, Payal Eladly, Ahmed Omran, Ahmed Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery A 55-year-old male patient with no past medical history presents to the ED to complain of exertional dyspnea and bilateral lower limb swelling. The patient was diagnosed with a severe dissecting aortic aneurysm on trans-thoracic echocardiography and later confirmed by a contrast CT aortogram. The patient was immediately started on anti-impulse therapy with labetalol infusion and underwent emergent aortic dissection repair. This case demonstrates an atypical presentation of a life-threatening condition that might have been missed on the initial assessment. Cureus 2021-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8289394/ /pubmed/34290930 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15752 Text en Copyright © 2021, Mowafy et al. https://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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title_fullStr An Atypical Presentation of Severe Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm: A Case Report and Literature Review
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title_short An Atypical Presentation of Severe Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm: A Case Report and Literature Review
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topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8289394/
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