mr Benjamin Patterson

Can you feel a thoracic aortic aneurysm?

Here I talk about the difficulties associated with diagnosing thoracic aortic aneurysms due to their asymptomatic nature. However, symptomatic similarities with can be mistaken for pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, pneumonia and gastroesophageal reflux disease, meaning it is difficult to determine without diagnostic measures.