Rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm during exercise. Gated blood pool studies

There is a high prevalence of associated coronary artery disease in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms. Exercise nuclear ventriculography is often used preoperatively to evaluate these patients. A patient who had a rupture of an abdominal aneurysm during exercise ventriculography is described. An instantaneous diagnosis of the acutely ruptured aneurysm was confirmed by blood pool scanning of the abdomen.