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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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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 Weinberger, Andrew Miller, Daniel |
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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. |
spellingShingle | Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Gurevitz, Menachem Weinberger, Andrew Miller, Daniel 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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