Case history Five years following quadruple CABG surgery, this 64-year-old patient started experiencing atypical chest pain. Question Are any of the bypass grafts or anastomoses stenotic or occluded? Is there an extra-cardiac cause behind the patient‘s symptoms? Diagnosis/Differential diagnosis Acute graft thrombosis, myocardial infarction, myocardial ischemia due to graft stenosis, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, pericarditis, … Read more

Case history 80-year-old male presented with suspicion of abdominal aortic aneurysm after a pulsating tumor was palpable in his abdomen during a routine examination. Question To exclude a malignant tumor in the abdomen and to evaluate a potential aortic aneurysm. Diagnosis / Differential diagnosis The first differential diagnosis of … Read more

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Case history A 72-year-old female patient arrives to CMIV at the University Hospital in Linköping, Sweden. She has been having two episodes of amarosis fugax two times last month and a severe holocephal headache for the last six hours. A CTA of the head and neck were performed at CMIV. Diagnosis/ Differential … Read more

Aortic aneurisms are a common pathology, with the potential risk of rupture. To characterize the aneurysm and for differential diagnosis CTA is performed. Dual Energy improves the aortic examination by higher image quality of CT angiography (CTA). MSCT – first line modality for aortic pathologies in the ER In imaging of the … Read more

Case history 68-year-old male with a history of surgical aortic repair after aortic rupture. Patient showed elevated infectious parameters. Question CT Angiography of the abdominal aorta was performed to rule out an intraabdominal focus or prosthesis infection. Diagnosis / Differential diagnosis First differential diagnosis in this patient would be an intraabdominal focus like abscess formation … Read more

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