title: Aortic dissection: to be or not to be?
abstract: Patients with acute aortic dissection present with such varied symptoms that diagnosis becomes difficult. Various imaging techniques like computed tomography angiography (CTA), magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasonography are used to diagnose this entity, but they too have their limitations. We present a case, which was falsely diagnosed as acute aortic dissection by CTA, which resulted in patient undergoing sternotomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Anesthesia, Max Healthcare Institute, 2 Press Enclave Road, Saket, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Kanwar Aditya
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Baloria
authors.forename: Achal
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dhir
authors.forename: Biju
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pillai
authors.forename: Nandini
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Selot
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000792:Angiography; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D056346:Sternotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed