Infectious Aortitis: Could Early Radiology Improve Patient Outcome?
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Early Diagnosis of Nonaneurysmal Infectious Thoracic Aortitis Using Transesophageal Echocardiogram in a Patient with Purulent Meningitis
Infectious thoracic aortitis is a rare entity in the antibiotic era and usually appears in patients with prior aortic disease and/or associated infective endocarditis. Infected nonaneurysmal aorta will likely progress to mycotic aneurysm if left untreated. In most of the reports, infectious thoracic aortitis presents with a mycotic aneurysm. We report the case of a patient with a nonaneurysmal ...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2284-2594
DOI: 10.12890/2018_000967