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A Rare Case of Homocysteinemia Presenting With Multiple Aneurysms in an Adolescent Boy

Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) is primarily a disorder of the elderly; the condition, however, is rare in children, for whom the misdiagnosis is not uncommon. It is one of the leading causes of death in the older age group worldwide, with a 4:1 male to female ratio. There are no real data a...

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Autores principales: Hamza, Ali, Arif, Anum, Manzoor Bhatti, Ahsin, Riaz, Bismah, Mughal, Usman Jamil, Ahmed, Yashfeen, Tanveer, Saman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8514801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660138
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17950
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author Hamza, Ali
Arif, Anum
Manzoor Bhatti, Ahsin
Riaz, Bismah
Mughal, Usman Jamil
Ahmed, Yashfeen
Tanveer, Saman
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Manzoor Bhatti, Ahsin
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Ahmed, Yashfeen
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description Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) is primarily a disorder of the elderly; the condition, however, is rare in children, for whom the misdiagnosis is not uncommon. It is one of the leading causes of death in the older age group worldwide, with a 4:1 male to female ratio. There are no real data about the incidence of aortic aneurysms in childhood. Although rare, an aortic aneurysm can be an important cause of mortality in children and adolescents. We present a case of an adolescent boy with a left coronary artery aneurysm, left axillary artery aneurysm, and TAAA type-IV caused by the metabolic disease homocysteinemia. He was referred to our facility when the complicated picture of the disease was discovered.
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spelling pubmed-85148012021-10-15 A Rare Case of Homocysteinemia Presenting With Multiple Aneurysms in an Adolescent Boy Hamza, Ali Arif, Anum Manzoor Bhatti, Ahsin Riaz, Bismah Mughal, Usman Jamil Ahmed, Yashfeen Tanveer, Saman Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) is primarily a disorder of the elderly; the condition, however, is rare in children, for whom the misdiagnosis is not uncommon. It is one of the leading causes of death in the older age group worldwide, with a 4:1 male to female ratio. There are no real data about the incidence of aortic aneurysms in childhood. Although rare, an aortic aneurysm can be an important cause of mortality in children and adolescents. We present a case of an adolescent boy with a left coronary artery aneurysm, left axillary artery aneurysm, and TAAA type-IV caused by the metabolic disease homocysteinemia. He was referred to our facility when the complicated picture of the disease was discovered. Cureus 2021-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8514801/ /pubmed/34660138 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17950 Text en Copyright © 2021, Hamza 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.
spellingShingle Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Hamza, Ali
Arif, Anum
Manzoor Bhatti, Ahsin
Riaz, Bismah
Mughal, Usman Jamil
Ahmed, Yashfeen
Tanveer, Saman
A Rare Case of Homocysteinemia Presenting With Multiple Aneurysms in an Adolescent Boy
title A Rare Case of Homocysteinemia Presenting With Multiple Aneurysms in an Adolescent Boy
title_full A Rare Case of Homocysteinemia Presenting With Multiple Aneurysms in an Adolescent Boy
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Homocysteinemia Presenting With Multiple Aneurysms in an Adolescent Boy
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Homocysteinemia Presenting With Multiple Aneurysms in an Adolescent Boy
title_short A Rare Case of Homocysteinemia Presenting With Multiple Aneurysms in an Adolescent Boy
title_sort rare case of homocysteinemia presenting with multiple aneurysms in an adolescent boy
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8514801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34660138
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17950
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