Aortic pain associated with deteriorated aortic elastic properties: an early manifestation of aortopathy.
With the exception of acute aortic dissection, the aorta is not widely considered as a symptom-producing organ. However, chest pain may be of aortic origin in the absence of dissection; deteriorated aortic elastic properties may facilitate the occurrence of symptoms. We describe chest pain of aortic origin in a 60-year-old patient with a stiff, dilated but non-dissected aorta. Attention to aortic elastic properties may help exploration of the etiologic and mechanistic environment in which aortic pain occurs, thus identifying a special subgroup of patients who require special monitoring and therapeutic approaches.
Vlachopoulos
Charalambos
C
Peripheral Vessels Unit, 1st Cardiology Department, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece. cvlachop@otenet.gr
Alexopoulos
Nikolaos
N
Tsiamis
Eleftherios
E
Stefanadis
Christodoulos
C
D001013:Aorta, Thoracic; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged