Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (Jan 2018)

Double Trouble: Massive Unruptured Aortic Aneurysms

  • Radhika Malhotra,
  • Joseph Zito,
  • Adam Schwartz,
  • Steven Sattler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2017.7.33820
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1

Abstract

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We describe a patient who presented to the emergency department complaining of generalized weakness, dark stools, and urinary retention who was found to have two large abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) compressing his bilateral ureters with associated hydronephrosis and renal insufficiency. In elderly male patients presenting with signs of obstructive uropathy, AAA should be considered as a potential cause.