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Successful surgical treatment of descending aorta interruption in a 29-year-old woman with acute paraplegia and subarachnoid hemorrhage: a case report.
- Source :
- Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery; 2015, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p1-4, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Interruption of the descending aorta is an extremely rare great vessel malformation. In this report, we describe a very unusual case of a 29-year-old female with a 13-year history of hypertension who was found to have an interruption of the descending aorta when she was hospitalized with a subarachnoid hemorrhage and symptoms of acute paraplegia. We successfully surgically corrected the defect using a Gore-Tex® graft to bypass the aortic interruption. The patient's blood pressure postoperatively returned to normal, and the patient recovered completely from her paraplegia by the time of her 5-month follow-up visit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17498090
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 108276415
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-015-0285-y