Acute Paraplegia as a Presentation of Aortic Saddle Embolism

Background. Acute onset paraplegia has a myriad of causes most often of a nonvascular origin. Vascular etiologies are infrequent causes and most often associated with postsurgical complications. Objective. To describe the occurrence and possible mechanism for aortic saddle embolism as a rare cause o...

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Autores principales: Irizarry, Lisandro, Wray, Anton, Guishard, Kim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1250153
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description Background. Acute onset paraplegia has a myriad of causes most often of a nonvascular origin. Vascular etiologies are infrequent causes and most often associated with postsurgical complications. Objective. To describe the occurrence and possible mechanism for aortic saddle embolism as a rare cause of acute paraplegia. Case Report. Described is a case of a 46-year-old female who presented with the sudden onset of nontraumatic low back pain with rapidly progressive paraplegia which was subsequently determined to be of vascular origin.
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spelling pubmed-50863562016-11-07 Acute Paraplegia as a Presentation of Aortic Saddle Embolism Irizarry, Lisandro Wray, Anton Guishard, Kim Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Background. Acute onset paraplegia has a myriad of causes most often of a nonvascular origin. Vascular etiologies are infrequent causes and most often associated with postsurgical complications. Objective. To describe the occurrence and possible mechanism for aortic saddle embolism as a rare cause of acute paraplegia. Case Report. Described is a case of a 46-year-old female who presented with the sudden onset of nontraumatic low back pain with rapidly progressive paraplegia which was subsequently determined to be of vascular origin. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5086356/ /pubmed/27822396 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1250153 Text en Copyright © 2016 Lisandro Irizarry et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Acute Paraplegia as a Presentation of Aortic Saddle Embolism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1250153
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