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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.
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Okay can you feel a thoracic aneurysm? On rare occasions when the thoracic aneurysm affects the aortic arch you can feel it just in the neck but most of the time you can't that's what makes it so dangerous is that they're often asymptomatic. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are asymptomatic and in very slim people with very large aneurysms you can feel them but even still often you can't so a thoracic aortic aneurysm often can cause the only sign that it's there is chest pain and of course chest pain is associated with heart attack pulmonary embolism pneumonia even gastroesophageal reflux disease so this is why diagnosing thoracic aneurysms and dissection is so difficult because the crossover in terms of the symptoms that it causes is pretty big.
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