Rapidly expanding aortic root mycotic pseudoaneurysm with outflow tract fistula

Ishan Parikh; Jeffrey Spindel; Mohammad Mathbout; Shahab Ghafghazi

doi:10.21542/gcsp.2021.15

Rapidly expanding aortic root mycotic pseudoaneurysm with outflow tract fistula

Glob Cardiol Sci Pract. 2021 Jun 30;2021(2):e202115. doi: 10.21542/gcsp.2021.15.

Authors

Ishan Parikh¹, Jeffrey Spindel¹, Mohammad Mathbout², Shahab Ghafghazi²

Affiliations

¹ University of Louisville, Department of Internal Medicine, USA.
² University of Louisville, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, USA.

Abstract

We present a 50-year-old patient with chronic Stanford type-A aortic dissection, infective endocarditis, and rapidly expanding peri-aortic myocytic pseudoaneurysm with LVOT fistula. This case highlights the role of multimodality imaging in pathoanatomically complex-case evaluation.

Publication types

Case Reports