Open AccessLate in-hospital rupture of a chronic post-traumatic pseudoaneurysm
Author(s) -
Dimos Karangelis,
Dimitrios Tzertzemelis,
Alexandros Demis,
Matthew Panagiotou
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
heart views
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-5123
pISSN - 1995-705X
DOI - 10.4103/heartviews.heartviews_62_18
Subject(s) - medicine , pseudoaneurysm , thoracic aorta , aneurysm , surgery , aorta , traffic accident , radiology , forensic engineering , engineering
Chronic posttraumatic pseudoaneurysms of the thoracic aorta are rare clinical entities. Herein, we report a case of an in-hospital cervical rupture of a chronic posttraumatic false aneurysm of the aortic isthmus in a 48-year-old man who had been involved in a traffic accident 20 years earlier.