XXS patient with an XXL aorta

Year 2020, Volume: 11 Issue: 2, 89 - 91, 21.03.2020

Fulya Avcı Demir , Arda Erkan Alexandros Papachristidis Konstantinos Theodoropoulos

https://doi.org/10.18663/tjcl.633430

Abstract

An
85-year-old woman with small body size was referred to our cardiology clinic
due to a longstanding nonspecific abdominal pain. A routine transthoracic
echocardiogram revealed a massive ascending aorta aneurysm. A chest CT
demonstrated a huge aneurysm of thoracic and abdominal aorta.

Keywords

Aortic aneurysm, Computed Tomography, transthoracic echocardiography

Dev Aortik Anevrizma

Abstract

Küçük vücut ölçülerine sahip 85 yaşında bayan hasta
uzun süredir olan nonspesifik karın ağrısı şikayeti ile kardiyoloji
polikliniğine başvurdu. Rutin yapılan transtorasik ekokardiyografisinde masif
büyüklükte bir asendan aort anevrizması tespit edildi. Torakal Aort BT
Anjiografide anevrizmanın toraks ve abdominal aort yerleşimli olduğu izlendi.

Keywords

aortik anevrizma, bilgisayarlı tomografi, transtorasik ekokardiyografi

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