TY  - JOUR
AU  - Patris, Vasileios
AU  - Whiteley, Jennifer
AU  - Argiriou, Orestis
AU  - Lama, Niki
AU  - Georgiou, Haris
AU  - Constantinou, Charalampos
AU  - Argiriou, Mihalis
AU  - Charitos, Christos
PY  - 2014
TI  - Pyrexia in patients with uncontrolled systemic hypertension: could they have an aortic dissection?
JF  - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 6, No 12 (December 31, 2014): Journal of Thoracic Disease
Y2  - 2014
KW  - 
N2  - Aortic dissection can present in a variety of ways and one of the most documented risk factors includes systemic hypertension. Occasionally aortic dissection can be diagnosed late due to an insidious presentation. Fever has been described in people with aortic dissection but rarely as the main presenting feature. We present the cases of two patients with type B aortic dissections who shared three pertinent features which could have alerted the clinicians of the potential diagnosis; systemic hypertension, small left sided pleural effusion and a fever of unknown origin.
UR  - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/3467