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Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-diagnosis, Dr RPGMC, Kangra at Tanda, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Assistant Professor, Department of Endocrinology, Dr RPGMC, Kangra at Tanda, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Senior resident, Department of Anaesthesia, DRPGMC, Kangra at Tanda, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Resident, Department of radiodiagnoisis, DRPGMC, Kangra at Tanda, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Lokesh Rana, Assistant Professor
Department of Radio-diagnosis
Dr RPGMC, Kangra at Tanda
Himachal Pradesh,India
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A 66 year old male presenting with chest pain and shortness of breath gradually
increasing for past 2 months, CECT was done which shows presence of contained rupture
of arch of aorta with pseudo aneurysm formation.
We present a case of a 66 year old male presenting with chest pain and shortness of breath gradually increasing for past 2 months CECT images shows aortic aneurysm in ascending and arch with peri-aortic soft tissue with focal discontinuity in the intimal wall calcification with formation of saccular pseudo aneurysm. There is also presence of pericardial effusion and bilateral pleural effusion. VR images also denote the same. Diagnosis is contained rupture with pseudo aneurysm formation. Such entity was rare to be encountered in day to day practice (Figure 1).
A 66 year old male presenting with chest pain and shortness of breath gradually
increasing for past 2 months CECT images shows aortic aneurysm(black arrow) in
ascending and arch with peri-aortic soft tissue with focal discontinuity in the intimal wall
calcification with formation of saccular pseudoaneurysm (white arrow). There is also
presence of pericardial effusion and bilateral pleural effusion. VR images also denote the
same. Diagnosis is contained rupture with pseudo aneurysm formation.
Contained rupture with pseudo aneurysm formation Rupture of thoracic aorta is an emergency requiring immediate diagnosis and management; however contained rupture diagnosis is often delayed due to chronicity and atypical clinical presentation [1,2].
Clinical presentation
Patients usually present with chest pain however symptoms are sometimes masked.
Presenting age is 60-70 years with slight male predominance, concomitant hypertension, CAD and PVD are present in most cases [3-5].
Key imaging diagnostic clues [1,4-6]
Differentials
Figure 1: A 66 year old male presenting with chest pain and
shortness of breath gradually increasing for past 2 months CECT
images shows aortic aneurysm (black arrow)
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