Aortic Chest Pain Stents 
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DECEMBER 5, 2024
BackgroundDouble aortic arch (DAA) with type B aortic dissection in adults is a rare aortic vascular disease. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) indicated a double aortic arch anomaly with localized dissection of the descending aorta.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2017
This is another case written by Pendell Meyers (who is helping to edit the blog and has many great recent posts) Case A 45 year old man was driving to work when he experienced acute onset sharp left sided chest pain with paresthesias of the left arm. A repeat ECG was recorded with pain 2/10: Not much change.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 20, 2024
A 63 year old man with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, prediabetes, and a family history of CAD developed chest pain, shortness of breath, and diaphoresis after consuming a large meal at noon. He called EMS, who arrived on scene about two hours after the onset of pain to find him hypertensive at 220 systolic.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2016
A middle aged male presented at midnight after 14 hours of constant, severe substernal chest pain, radiating to his throat and to bilateral jaws, and associated with diaphoresis. The pain was not positional, pleuritic, or reproducible. It was not relieved by anything. He had no previous medical history.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
An elderly woman presented with chest pain that radiated to the back for several hours. The first troponin returned at 0.099 ng/mL (elevated, consistent with Non-Occlusion MI) Providers were concerned with aortic dissection, so they order a chest aorta CT. It is essentially normal.
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 5, 2024
The provider had sent the patient for an aortic dissection scan which had shown extremely heavy calcification of the LAD. The patient had continued to have chest pain. There was a 100% proximal LAD occlusion that was opened and stented. The cath lab was activated. But 45 minutes later than it should have been.
Heart BMJ
AUGUST 14, 2024
Previous medical interventions included a spectrum of procedures, including catheter-directed thrombectomy for popliteal artery aneurysms with thrombosis, vascular bypass grafting for cerebral-anterior communicating artery aneurysms and arch replacement and stent implantation for aortic dissecting aneurysms.
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