A Painless Thoracic Aortic Dissection

  • Youssef Mahmoud SHO General Internal Medicine, Ashford and St. Peters NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford
  • Tamer Shalaby ST7 Acute and General Internal Medicine HEKSS, Ashford and St. Peters NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford
  • Nazia Rashid Consultant Diabetes, Endocrinology and Acute Medicine, Ashford and St. Peters NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12890/2016_000443

Keywords

Thoracic Aortic Dissection, CT Aortogram, D-dimer, EVAR

Abstract

Thoracic aortic dissection (TAD) has a very high mortality rate and is often missed due to the atypical presentation of patients. We present a case of a man with chronic hypertension, atrial fibrillation (AF) (on regular warfarin) and a previous endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), who presented with dyspepsia and was incidentally found to have a ruptured distal thoracic aneurysm on imaging with no obvious clinical signs on examination, nor abnormalities on admission chest x-ray (CXR).

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Published: 2016-09-28

Issue: Vol. 3 No. 6 (view)

Section: Articles

How to cite:
Mahmoud, Y., Shalaby, T., & Rashid, N. (2016). A Painless Thoracic Aortic Dissection. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 3(6). https://doi.org/10.12890/2016_000443

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