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Synchronous and metachronous thoracic aortic aneurysms in patients with abdomin...
Melo, Ryan; Duarte, Gonçalo Silva; Lopes, Alice; Alves, Mariana; Caldeira, Daniel; Fernandes, Ruy Fernandes e; Pedro, Luís MBackground: The prevalence of thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) in patients with known abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) is not well known and understudied. Our aim was to conduct a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the overall prevalence of synchronous and metachronous TAA (SM‐TAA) in patients with a known AAA and to understand the characteristics of this sub‐population. Methods and Results: We searched MEDL...
Acute acalculous cholecystitis as a rare manifestation of chronic mesenteric is...
Melo, Ryan; Pedro, Luís M; Silvestre, Luís; Freire, José P.; Pereira, Cláudia; Fernandes, Ruy Fernandes e; Fernandes, José Fernandes eINTRODUCTION: Symptomatic chronic mesenteric ischemia (CMI) is an uncommon condition that usually presents with intestinal angina, sitophobia and unintentional weight loss. Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) has very rarely been described in the settings of CMI. PRESENTATION OF CASE: We describe a case of a 73 year old man that developed an AAC as a complication of CMI. The patient underwent a simultaneous ch...