Although intramural blood pools due to intercostal arteries in intramural hematoma have been reported as a traumatic aortic injury, the precise mechanism is unclear. We present the case of an elderly patient who presented with an intramural blood pool due to an intercostal artery prolapse in an intramural hematoma associated with a compression fracture of the thoracic vertebra after a fall. < It is possible to treat intramural blood pool due to intercostal artery prolapse in an intramural hematoma associated with thoracic vertebral compression and intramural blood pool in an intramural hematoma as a traumatic aortic injury with medications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 54-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to our ward because of recurrent chest pain at rest for 2 months. She had been treated with nivolumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitor for inoperable advanced hypopharyngeal cancer for 21 months. She had no chest pain after cessation of nivolumab treatment.
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