Rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm during exercise. Gated blood pool studies.
There is a high prevalence of associated coronary artery disease in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms. Exercise nuclear ventriculography is often used preoperatively to evaluate these patients. A patient who had a rupture of an abdominal aneurysm during exercise ventriculography is described. An instantaneous diagnosis of the acutely ruptured aneurysm was confirmed by blood pool scanning of the abdomen.
D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D005082:Physical Exertion; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging