title: Emergency surgical treatment of a giant unruptured aneurysm of the ascending aorta: the importance of routine chest X-ray.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology, Atatürk University Medical Faculty, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Elbey
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Erkut
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Becit
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sevimli
mesh_terms: 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