Emergency surgical treatment of a giant unruptured aneurysm of the ascending aorta: the importance of routine chest X-ray.
Chest X-rays can detect aortic aneurysms or other silently developing aortic or cardiac diseases. In the present study, an ascending aortic aneurysm was detected in a 20-year-old woman with a persistent cough presenting to our emergency department. A Bentall procedure was carried out under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.
Elbey
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Cardiology, Atatürk University Medical Faculty, Erzurum, Turkey.
Erkut
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Becit
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Sevimli
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D000328:Adult; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D050792:Circulatory Arrest, Deep Hypothermia Induced; D004638:Emergency Treatment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008482:Mediastinum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed