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October 21, 2020

A Man in His 90s With Progressive Hoarseness—What is the Cause?

Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
  • 2Department of Cardiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
  • 3Beijing Key Laboratory of Metabolic Disorder Related Cardiovascular Disease, Beijing, China
  • 4Department of Radiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
JAMA Cardiol. 2020;5(10):e205116. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2020.5116

A man in his 90s was admitted for a 2-month history of progressive hoarseness. He had a medical history of an aortic arch pseudoaneurysm with dimensions of 5.0 × 4.0 × 4.2 cm, which had been discovered incidentally by aortic computed tomographic angiography 9 years earlier (Figure, A), at which point he was asymptomatic and refused surgical repair. What was the pseudoaneurysm like on this admission, and what was the diagnosis for his hoarseness?

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