Nutcracker syndrome due to chronic aortic dissection

[Left atrial obliteration due to an aortic aneurysm secondary to chronic aortic dissection].

Chronic Aneurysmal Aortic Dissection

E ndovascular grafting is being increasingly used to treat aortic aneurysms and dissections. However, patients with aneurysmal dissections involving both the thoracic and abdominal aorta are particularly challenging to treat because of the natural communications at the level of the visceral arteries, particularly in the presence of a defined connective tissue disease. Reports of hybrid procedur...

Nutcracker phenomenon or nutcracker syndrome?

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Nutcracker phenomenon or nutcracker syndrome?

Sir, Chang et al. [1] describe a young patient in whom a nutcracker syndrome was diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance angiography. Patients with nutcracker phenomenon are usually young and slim, and the diagnosis can be made by ultrasound. There are established criteria for the diagnosis of the entrapment of the left renal vein by two-dimensional ultrasonography and Do...

Intramural aortic abscess mimicking chronic aortic dissection.

A 77-year-old patient was referred for progressive fatigue and dyspnea on exertion. Preoperative imaging evaluations including transthoracic echocardiography and computed tomography were suggestive of a chronic ascending aortic dissection with an intramural hematoma. Intraoperatively, the intramural structure was identified as an abscess cavity.