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Medical Author:

Shabir Bhimji, MD

Coauthor:

Bryan Hoynak, MD

Medical Editor:

Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD

Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD

Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.

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Author: Shabir Bhimji, MD

Coauthor: Bryan Hoynak, MD

Editor: Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD

Previous contributing editors: Alan D Forker, MD, Program Director of Cardiovascular Fellowship, Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Anthony Anker, MD, FAAEM, Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg, VA. REFERENCES:

American Heart Association

"Aortic Aneurysm Fact Sheet." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 3 Jan. 2011.

Pearce, William H., et al. "Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm." Medscape. 24 Sept. 2012.

Tseng, Elaine, et al. "Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm." Medscape. 3 Oct. 2012.

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