PMID: 9537532Apr 16, 1998Paper

Symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm and "situs viscerum inversus." Diagnostic and therapeutic approach

The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
S OcchionorelliF Mascoli

Abstract

We report one case of symptomatic aneurysm of infrarenal abdominal aorta in a patient symptomatic for acute abdomen. The patient was accepted at the Emergency Care Unit and the routine admission tests were taken. US of the abdomen revealed a <Situs Viscerum Inversus Totalis> (SVI) disposition of the organs and an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta below the renal arteries. Patient underwent an aorto-aortic straight graft In this case-report we show SVI cannot be considered a problem in the surgical treatment of symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysms.

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