Case 38-2012: A 60-year-old man with abdominal pain and aortic aneurysms

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 2335-2346

  Stone, John H ^a,b   Patel, Virendra I ^a,b   Oliveira, George R ^a,b   Stone, James R ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORIDE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ESMOLOL; GLOBULIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; LABETALOL; LORAZEPAM; METRONIDAZOLE; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; VANCOMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DEBRIDEMENT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EDENTULOUSNESS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GINGIVITIS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOMA; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; JAUNDICE; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; VOMITING; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEURYSM; AORTA; AORTITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84871098260     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1209330     Document Type: Article

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