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SUBMITTER: Fox H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6275365 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cardiology cases 20130129 4
We present the case of a 69-year-old female surviving an extensive dissecting thoracic aortic aneurysm. Due to the initial presentation with angina and epigastric pain the first working diagnosis was acute coronary syndrome. However, on transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), the dissecting aneurysm (type Stanford A) could be detected. Our article stresses the importance of imaging for the rapid and accurate diagnosis of thoracic aortic aneurysms with dissection. In our case, T ...[more]