Aneurysm of descending thoracic aorta, in majority of cases is diagnosed either by chance in routine chest imaging for some other reasons or rarely due to it's symptomatic presentation like chest pain and other mediastinal compression symptoms. In this case report we present a case of 69 year old smoker who presented with cough, hemoptysis and left sided massive painless hemorrhagic pleural eff...

A 37-year-old patient with back pain and somatomegaly was found to have a penetrating aneurysm of sections IV and V of the abdominal aorta. Results of a family history and clinical examination confirmed suspicions of Marfan's syndrome. Further angiologic studies depicted an aneurysmatic dilatation of the left popliteal artery. Aneurysmatic dilatations are primarily located in sections I and II ...

A giant aneurysm of the abdominal aorta presented with a 2-3 h history of right loin pain radiating to the groin and was associated with microscopic haematuria. The pain settled and a urogram was performed 2 days later. Considerable calcification in its wall outlined a very large aneurysm of the abdominal aorta with a maximum transverse diameter of 13.5 cm. The patient underwent successful emer...

Robinson, W. M., McMillan, I. K. R., and Johnson, A. M. (1973). Thorax, 529-532. Saccular aneurysm caused by bacterial endocarditis in a syphilitic aorta. The rapid development of a saccular aneurysm during successfully treated bacterial endocarditis, in an ascending aorta previously affected by syphilis which had been treated with adequate chemotherapy 15 years previously, is described. Althou...

Figure 1: Preoperative chest computed tomography showed an idiopathic aortic root aneurysm with a maximal size of 15 cm, greatly compressing the left ventricular outflow tract, ascending aorta, right atrium and right ventricle. There was a persistent left superior vena cava. There were no clinical findings of Marfan syndrome or Ehlers–Danlos syndrome. Figure 2: A cardiopulmonary bypass was made...

Figure 1: Computed tomography demonstrated an acute type A aortic dissection with the primary entry located on the ascending aorta (black arrow) and a massive effusion in the pericardium (*). The aortic dissection involved the descending aorta, which was dilated to 6.1 cm with an arteriosclerotic aneurysmal change (white arrow), the so-called Cambia classification group III. Figure 2: Thoracic ...

Robinson, W. M., McMillan, I. K. R., and Johnson, A. M. (1973). Thorax, 529-532. Saccular aneurysm caused by bacterial endocarditis in a syphilitic aorta. The rapid development of a saccular aneurysm during successfully treated bacterial endocarditis, in an ascending aorta previously affected by syphilis which had been treated with adequate chemotherapy 15 years previously, is described. Althou...