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Aortic Root Aneurysm in an Extreme Athlete

Aortic root aneurysms require close clinical monitoring due to the risk of dissection or rupture. While patients usually remain asymptomatic, it can occasionally be detected on physical examination as a diastolic murmur, which can be further confirmed with diagnostic imaging. The vast majority of an...

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Autores principales: Gurevitz, Menachem, Weinberger, Andrew, Miller, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9357427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35949787
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26661
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author Gurevitz, Menachem
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description Aortic root aneurysms require close clinical monitoring due to the risk of dissection or rupture. While patients usually remain asymptomatic, it can occasionally be detected on physical examination as a diastolic murmur, which can be further confirmed with diagnostic imaging. The vast majority of aneurysms are found in patients with congenital or acquired conditions that compromise vascular integrity. Here, we present a case of an athletic, healthy appearing 54-year-old who was incidentally found to have a severely enlarged aneurysm requiring urgent surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-93574272022-08-09 Aortic Root Aneurysm in an Extreme Athlete Gurevitz, Menachem Weinberger, Andrew Miller, Daniel Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Aortic root aneurysms require close clinical monitoring due to the risk of dissection or rupture. While patients usually remain asymptomatic, it can occasionally be detected on physical examination as a diastolic murmur, which can be further confirmed with diagnostic imaging. The vast majority of aneurysms are found in patients with congenital or acquired conditions that compromise vascular integrity. Here, we present a case of an athletic, healthy appearing 54-year-old who was incidentally found to have a severely enlarged aneurysm requiring urgent surgical intervention. Cureus 2022-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9357427/ /pubmed/35949787 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26661 Text en Copyright © 2022, Gurevitz 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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Aortic Root Aneurysm in an Extreme Athlete
title Aortic Root Aneurysm in an Extreme Athlete
title_full Aortic Root Aneurysm in an Extreme Athlete
title_fullStr Aortic Root Aneurysm in an Extreme Athlete
title_full_unstemmed Aortic Root Aneurysm in an Extreme Athlete
title_short Aortic Root Aneurysm in an Extreme Athlete
title_sort aortic root aneurysm in an extreme athlete
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9357427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35949787
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26661
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