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👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ABC VASCULAR has launched a new video format. You can now watch a 30 seconds video and try to attempt making a diagnosis. The idea is to familiarise healthcare professionals with a variety of vascular ultrasound cases.
🔍We are going to post the case description here in the description session in one week, so stay tuned.
💻 In the video, the most relevant ultrasound findings are presented with some comments so to make a first attempt diagnosis feasible.
🧐 CASE: Abdominal aorta in a patient who attended AE for onset of abdominal pain.
🗒 Try to understand whether the aorta presents an abnormal diameter, what shape is the aorta, whether there is any wall abnormalities and whether the aorta is patent. What is a normal diameter of the abdominal aorta? What is the definition of an abdominal aortic aneurysm?
👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️CASE SOLUTION: Patent, fusiform, infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm with maximum antero posterior maximum diameter measuring 5.57 cm with presence of significant amount of mural thrombus and with patent residual maximum AP diameter of 1.8 cm.
When describing an aneurysm it is important to report on the location, shape, maximum AP diameter, presence of arterial walls abnormalities and whether involves any of the aortic branches and common iliac arteries.
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