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Aortic aneurysm is a condition in which silent and irreversible focal dilations of aortic wall is occurred due to loos of the wall integrity (1). Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a type of aortic aneurysm that is associated with high risk of mortality , each year in US the AAA causes 4500 death and it is the 14Th cause of death (2). Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is another type of aortic aneurysm that is quiet rare with a prevalence of 5-10 per 100,000 in UK (3) .

Most of the time AAA and TAA are asymptomatic and diagnosed incidentally by ultrasound or computed tomography ordered for other reasons ,others are symptomatic due to compression of adjacent organ and complication such as dissection and rupture (3).Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and
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