TY - JOUR
T1 - Right procedure, wrong organ, an unusual case report of aortic trauma in a multiple injured patient
AU - Mitsos, Aristotelis P.
AU - Chantler, Jonathan
AU - Konstantinou, Evangelos
AU - Fotis, Theofanis
AU - Lambrinou, Ekaterini
AU - Uberoi, Ramon
AU - Stacey, Richard
AU - Byrne, James V.
N1 - © 2009 licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
PY - 2009/12/31
Y1 - 2009/12/31
N2 - Blunt traumatic injury and acute dissection of thoracic aorta is increasing in incidence in seriously multi-trauma patients, remaining highly lethal. Early identification and repair is the key to a successful outcome. We report an unusual case of a 62-year-old man involved in a motor vehicle accident after subarachnoid hemorrhage due to an intracranial artery aneurysm rupture. The post-traumatic aorta dissection was overlooked during the initial evaluation and was found incidentally later during an attempt for endovascular treatment of the intracranial aneurysm. The pitfalls in the diagnostic approach of this patient are discussed and the paramount importance of the correct interpretation of all the available clinical and investigational findings in multiple injured patients are highlighted.
AB - Blunt traumatic injury and acute dissection of thoracic aorta is increasing in incidence in seriously multi-trauma patients, remaining highly lethal. Early identification and repair is the key to a successful outcome. We report an unusual case of a 62-year-old man involved in a motor vehicle accident after subarachnoid hemorrhage due to an intracranial artery aneurysm rupture. The post-traumatic aorta dissection was overlooked during the initial evaluation and was found incidentally later during an attempt for endovascular treatment of the intracranial aneurysm. The pitfalls in the diagnostic approach of this patient are discussed and the paramount importance of the correct interpretation of all the available clinical and investigational findings in multiple injured patients are highlighted.
U2 - 10.4076/1757-1626-2-6795
DO - 10.4076/1757-1626-2-6795
M3 - Article
SN - 1757-1626
VL - 2
JO - Cases Journal
JF - Cases Journal
ER -