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Reminder of important clinical lesson
Between a rock and a hard place
  1. Regent Lee1,2,
  2. Mark Bratby3,
  3. Raman Uberoi3,
  4. Ashok Handa2,
  5. Linda Hands2
  1. 1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  2. 2Department of Vascular surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, UK
  3. 3Department of Interventional Radiology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Regent Lee, regent.lee{at}cardiov.ox.ac.uk

Summary

The authors present the case of a patient who presented with acute coronary syndrome requiring percutaneous coronary intervention. He was incidentally diagnosed with a large abdominal abdominal aortic aneurysm which developed acute inflammatory features with rapid sac expansion and imminent rupture. This short report aims to highlight several dilemma that confronted us during the management of this patient.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.03.2011.3995

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    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.