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Case Reports
. 2014 Feb 14:2014:bcr2013203097.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2013-203097.

Isolated abdominal aortic dissection

Ee Ling Serene Tang  1 , Choon Seng Chong, Sriram Narayanan
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Case Reports

Isolated abdominal aortic dissection

Ee Ling Serene Tang et al. BMJ Case Rep. .

Abstract

Isolated acute abdominal aortic dissection is a rare condition, accounting for 1.3% of all aortic dissections. It may be classified as iatrogenic, traumatic or spontaneous. To date, only 92 patients have been reported in western literature. All the reports were based on the Caucasian population, and the mean age according to the International Registry of Acute abdominal aortic dissection (IRAD) was 67.7 ± 13.3 years. We report a case of an isolated infrarenal abdominal aortic dissection in a middle age Asian man, and our subsequent management.

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Figure 1
CT of the abdomen and pelvis at the time of presentation: Abdominal aortic dissection 8.6 cm from the level of the coeliac axis to the level of the aortic bifurcation with a maximum diameter of 1.8 cm. Proximal eccentric aortic thrombus noted.
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