ABSTRACT
We are reporting a case revealed by an abdomino-thoracic painful syndrome associated with multi-organ failure. A 61-year-old hypertensive woman was hospitalized for the management of hypertensive emergency associating acute coronary syndrome and abdominal pain. A thoraco-abdomino-pelvic CT-scan showed a right adrenal mass associated with hepatic vein thrombosis. After medical preparation, an adrenalectomy was performed by way of open surgery; the study of the surgical specimen found a pheochromocytoma score PASS 4. The follow-up was marked by the normalization of blood pressure and biological abnormalities.
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Adrenal Gland Neoplasms , Budd-Chiari Syndrome , Pheochromocytoma , Adrenal Gland Neoplasms/complications , Adrenal Gland Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Adrenal Gland Neoplasms/surgery , Budd-Chiari Syndrome/complications , Budd-Chiari Syndrome/diagnostic imaging , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Pheochromocytoma/complications , Pheochromocytoma/diagnostic imaging , Pheochromocytoma/surgery , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
Ductus diverticulum is either a remnant of the ductus arteriosus or the right dorsal aortic root. The most common diagnosis is the differentiation of an aortic isthmus pseudoaneurysm from a type III ductal diverticulum. Both aortic entities occur at roughly the same anatomical location often leading to diagnostic confusion. Aortic dissection should be considered if it is Takayasu's disease. We are reporting the case of a 31-year-old woman with chest pain and muscle weakness, functional impotence of the left upper limb with intermittent palpitations. Thoraco-abdominal CT angiography was in favor of inflammatory arteritis of the thoraco-abdominal aorta, common carotids and the left subclavian artery. Sub-occlusive stenosis of the left axillary artery was noted, in favor of Takayasu disease. There was an aspect of aortic ductus diverticulum type III, 24mm from the emergence of the subclavian artery simulating aortic dissection or ulceration of the aortic isthmus. An electrocardiogram revealed Wolff Parkinson White syndrome with left lateral Kent. There was good clinical outcome after immunosuppressive drugs and antiarrhythmic therapy.