Acute injury to the thoracic aorta is a life-threatening and can lead to various types of aortic injury including the formation of false aneurysm or pseudoaneurysm. We report two cases of acute traumatic aortic injury after motor vehicle accidents. One case had a saccular pseudoaneurysm and another case had complex aortic injury with pseudoaneurysms. We review the chest radiograph and CT scan f...

A 37-year-old male with acute complicated methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus mitral valve endocarditis underwent urgent valve replacement with a bileaflet prosthesis. The postoperative course was complicated with fever and heart failure. Echocardiography showed a large subannular false aneurysm of the left ventricle. Three weeks later resection and closure of the defect with a patch ma...

conclusions this rare observation supports the role of immunosuppressive therapy in preventing the recurrence of life-threatening vascular lesions in the management of behcet’s disease. introduction arterial involvement in behcet’s disease has been previously described. we report a rare case of a large and long-segment thoracoabdominal aneurysm, which was associated with behcet’s disease and ha...

A 58-year-old male patient has a history of a Stanford type A aortic dissection running up to the left common iliac artery for which a composite aortic valve graft replacement was performed approximately three years ago. This time, the patient presented with fever and chills. We performed a transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), which excluded vegetations. Upon retracting the TEE probe, the de...

A 14-month-old infant was found to have a giant aneurysm of the ascending aorta at the time he underwent angiography. At the time of autopsy, a saccular chamber was found to take the place of the aorta. Histologic examination of the aneurysm revealed absence of the medial layer. Thus, medial genesis may be another cause of aneurysm of the ascending aorta.

A middle aged male with history of Fallot type Double outlet right ventricle and coarctation aorta who underwent multiple surgeries since childhood. With RV to pulmonary artery conduit end repair initially, followed by aortic valve, valve RV-PA replacements later. He subsequently developed significant flow through a fistula between previously coiled pseudoaneurysm LVOT. This was percutaneously ...

Despite earlier angiography, poststenotic aneurysm of the aorta was an unexpected finding at operation in two patients with coarctation. One aneurysm was found in an intercostal artery in a 19 year old man and the other was a false aneurysm just distal to the coarctation site in a 7 year old boy. These aneurysms are fragile, apt to rupture, and difficult to diagnose preoperatively. Though local...

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Hemoptysis is the rarest presentation of thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA).This critical condition is one of the life-threatening medical emergencies. Even with prompt approaches, TAA can have highly terrible outcomes.   Although TAA is an almost asymptomatic condition that is accidentally discovered, imaging with contrast is the most useful modality to diagnosis it.