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Echocardiography and CT angiography revealed a circumferential aortic dissection extending to the arch in an otherwise healthy adolescent male presenting with acute chest pain.
This case report highlights the presentation and multimodality imaging diagnosis of aortic dissection in an otherwise healthy adolescent male.
Consider aortic dissection in adolescents with acute chest pain; case report leaves open incidence and risk factors in this population.
An adolescent otherwise healthy male presented with acute onset chest pain. Physical examination was remarkable for early diastolic murmur of aortic regurgitation. Transthoracic and subsequently transoesophageal echocardiography revealed aortic dissection extending to the arch. CT angiography revealed …
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Choh et al. (2008) studied this question. Echocardiography and CT angiography revealed a circumferential aortic dissection extending to the arch in an otherwise healthy adolescent male presenting with acute chest pain.
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