Statesboro, GA
A 19-year-old male asked:
Ican feel my abdominal aorta always pulsing sometimes its strong sometimes its weaker than other times only when lying on my back 19 6'0 163 lbs. aaa?
2 doctor answers • 2 doctors weighed in
Dr. Creighton Wrightanswered
surgery 58 years experience
Good: That is likely your normal pulse in a relatively thin body!
we all should be able to feel that-except most are too fat!
that pulse is good.
No pulsation would be a bad thing!
your doc can assess for any expansion on physical or ultrasound.
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Dr. Timothy Wuanswered
Vascular Surgery 20 years experience
Probably not: Very thin patients can often feel their aorta and become concerned that it represents an aneurysm. I wouldn't worry at all. And at 19 an aortic aneurysm would be really unlikely unless you had a connective tissue disorder like marfan's or ehlers-danlos syndromes, but this is likely something you'd have found out by now.
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Last updated Dec 9, 2013
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