Ishan Parikh, Jeffrey Spindel, Mohammad Mathbout, Shahab Ghafghazi
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We present a 50-year-old patient with chronic Stanford type-A aortic dissection, infective endocarditis, and rapidly expanding peri-aortic myocytic pseudoaneurysm with LVOT fistula. This case highlights the role of multimodality imaging in pathoanatomically complex-case evaluation.