A 31 -year-old man sustained a gunshot injury to the chest with multiple pellets
evident on chest X-ray. Nine pellets were shown to be intracardiac by echocardiography.
There was no immediate cardiac dysfunction, but pericardial tamponade
developed later. After pericardiocentesis, the patient made an uneventful
recovery.
Large, non‐dissecting thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) up to 13 cm in size are typically found in elderly patients with non‐specific respiratory symptoms yet must be detected quickly due to their mortality risk. We present a 31‐year‐old man with exertional dyspnea secondary to aortic insufficiency from a 9.4 cm TAA.
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