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- Title
Large Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm With Aortocaval Fistula.
- Authors
Maeda, Hideaki; Umezawa, Hisaki; Goshima, Masakazu; Hattori, Tsutomu; Nakamura, Tetsuya; Takasaka, Ayako; Negishi, Nanao
- Abstract
The article presents two computed tomography images of a 63-year old man with a 6-month history of back pain, a 3-month history of exertional dyspnea and 4-day history of congestive heart failure. The images show an 11-centimeter aneurysm of the infrarenal aorta and early filling of the inferior cava. Urgent operation was done with closure of the vena cava fistula from within the aortic sac.
- Subjects
TOMOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL aortic aneurysms; AORTIC aneurysms; ANEURYSMS; VASCULAR diseases; VENA cava inferior
- Publication
Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, 2007, Vol 41, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
1538-5744
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1538574407299783