A fatal masquerade in pneumonia: Ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm

We described an 87‐year‐old man who presented with fever and hemoptysis. Nosocomial pneumonia was initially suspected. However, the patient had worsening hemoptysis despite defervescence. Chest computed tomography disclosed ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm. Emergent surgery was then commenced for a...

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Autores principales: Liu, Ching‐Han, Huang, Shih‐Chung, Hsu, Ching‐Tsai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35035967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5285
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description We described an 87‐year‐old man who presented with fever and hemoptysis. Nosocomial pneumonia was initially suspected. However, the patient had worsening hemoptysis despite defervescence. Chest computed tomography disclosed ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm. Emergent surgery was then commenced for adequate treatment.
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spelling pubmed-87524552022-01-14 A fatal masquerade in pneumonia: Ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm Liu, Ching‐Han Huang, Shih‐Chung Hsu, Ching‐Tsai Clin Case Rep Clinical Images We described an 87‐year‐old man who presented with fever and hemoptysis. Nosocomial pneumonia was initially suspected. However, the patient had worsening hemoptysis despite defervescence. Chest computed tomography disclosed ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm. Emergent surgery was then commenced for adequate treatment. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8752455/ /pubmed/35035967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5285 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A fatal masquerade in pneumonia: Ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm
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title_full A fatal masquerade in pneumonia: Ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm
title_fullStr A fatal masquerade in pneumonia: Ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm
title_full_unstemmed A fatal masquerade in pneumonia: Ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm
title_short A fatal masquerade in pneumonia: Ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35035967
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5285
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