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Transesophageal echocardiographic identification of a descending aortic aneurysm rupture into the left lung
S R Aaluri1, A Miller, N C Nanda
1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heart Station, SW/S102, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|September 9, 2000
Abstract:
This case report describes a patient in whom a descending aortic aneurysm ruptured into the left lung, producing hemoptysis. With transesophageal echocardiography, we were able to define the site and extent of the aneurysm, as well as the two sites of rupture into lung tissue.