A case of resistant hypertension in a 69-year-old man.
A 69-year-old man presented with resistant hypertension, symptoms of calf claudication, faint femoral pulses and relative lower limb hypotension, suggestive of aortic coarctation. CT scanning revealed extensive arterial thrombosis from his lower abdominal aorta to both common iliac arteries as the aetiology of his apparent manifestation of aortic coarctation.
Chin
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University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK.
Chong
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D000368:Aged; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000532:radiotherapy; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed