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Rare disease
Haemoptysis from an innominate artery aneurysm
  1. Sainath Gaddam1,
  2. Ashish Koirala1,
  3. Gary Giangola2,
  4. James Lafferty3,
  5. Theodore Maniatis4
  1. 1Department of Internal Medicine, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York, USA
  2. 2Department of Vascular Surgery, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York, USA
  3. 3Department of Cardiology, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York, USA
  4. 4Department of Critial Care Medicine, Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, New York, USA
  1. Correspondence to Sainath Gaddam, gaddamsainath{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.10.2009.2384

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    An elderly man with a past medical history of hypertension and non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy with automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator presented to our institution with sudden onset haemoptysis and hoarseness of voice.

    CT of the chest with intravenous contrast showed clear lung fields and an aneurismal mass arising from the innominate artery. CT angiograph with three-dimensional reconstruction (figure 1) confirmed a 5 cm …

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