A Case Of A Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Referred Due To Acute Cardiac Failure

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  • Matsuo Kunihiro
    Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Medical University
  • Asai Yasufumi
    Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Medical University
  • Kurimoto Yoshihiko
    Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Medical University
  • Taguchi Dai
    Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Medical University
  • Uemura Shuuji
    Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Medical University
  • Ura Hideki
    Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Medical University
  • Imaizumi Hitoshi
    Department of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Sapporo Medical University

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  • 急性心不全にて紹介された腹部大動脈りゅう破裂の１例

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We report a case of an abdominal aortic aneurysm which ruptured into the inferior vena cava indicated by CT and angiography in a patient that had been transferred to our hospital with a diagnosis of acute cardiac failure. The patient was a 73-year-old male who had been examined at another hospital for chest pain, hypotension, vomiting and vertigo and had been admitted to our hospital for examination of acute cardiac failure of unknown cause. A pulsating giant mass was palpable in the abdomen, and a continuous murmur was also audible in the abdomen. The patient showed no anemia or abdominal pain, but CT indicated the possibility of the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm into the inferior vena cava. Emergency surgery was successfully performed following confirmation of the rupture by angiography. The results of this case indicate the need to consider a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm as a possible cause of symptoms resembling acute cardiac failure.

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  • CRID
    1390282679345376000
  • NII Article ID
    130003437642
  • DOI
    10.3893/jjaam.14.467
  • ISSN
    18833772
    0915924X
  • Text Lang
    ja
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