Exertional Dyspnea as a Symptom of Infrarenal Aortic Occlusive Disease.

The article describes the case of a 77-year-old woman with hyperlipidemia and hypertension presented with exertional dyspnea. She underwent stenting of the aortic occlusion and had symptomatic improvement right away. Also mentioned are the low possibility of pulmonary embolism as showed by a ventilation-perfusion scan and the causative relationship between the patient's infrarenal abdominal aortic stenosis and her claudication symptoms.