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Takuya Wada1, Shogo Oyama1, Shingo Ohuchi1
1Department of Cardiovascular surgery, Nakadori General Hospital, Akita, Japan.
Abstract:
In this study, we report a case of a 45-year-old man with dysphagia aortica secondary to chronic traumatic aortic pseudoaneurysm of the aortic isthmus. He had been involved in a motor vehicle accident 27 years earlier. Computed tomography demonstrated a severely calcified aortic pseudoaneurysm of the aortic isthmus that compressed the esophagus extrinsically. An invasive surgical procedure involving a graft replacement and removal of the calcified aortic wall released the esophageal compression and completely improved the patient's symptoms. To the best of our knowledge, a case of dysphagia aortica caused by calcified pseudoaneurysm has never been reported.
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