An Unusual Presentation of a Completely Transected Aorta Presenting As Acute Limb Ischemia With Intramural Thrombus

Contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography is currently the preferred imaging modality to diagnose acute traumatic aortic injury (ATAI). Rarely, ATAI can present with atypical findings that make the diagnosis and further management exceptionally challenging. Furthermore, ATAI can also be as...

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Autores principales: Tarafdar, Swarnava, Lahiri, Raja, Kumar, Ajay, Agarwal, Aakanksha, Sharma, Garima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9700449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36447709
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30754
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author Tarafdar, Swarnava
Lahiri, Raja
Kumar, Ajay
Agarwal, Aakanksha
Sharma, Garima
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Lahiri, Raja
Kumar, Ajay
Agarwal, Aakanksha
Sharma, Garima
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description Contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography is currently the preferred imaging modality to diagnose acute traumatic aortic injury (ATAI). Rarely, ATAI can present with atypical findings that make the diagnosis and further management exceptionally challenging. Furthermore, ATAI can also be associated with inferior vena cava injury showing only indirect signs on later imaging. We present an unusual case of traumatic aortic disruption mimicking acute limb ischemia.
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spelling pubmed-97004492022-11-28 An Unusual Presentation of a Completely Transected Aorta Presenting As Acute Limb Ischemia With Intramural Thrombus Tarafdar, Swarnava Lahiri, Raja Kumar, Ajay Agarwal, Aakanksha Sharma, Garima Cureus Emergency Medicine Contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography is currently the preferred imaging modality to diagnose acute traumatic aortic injury (ATAI). Rarely, ATAI can present with atypical findings that make the diagnosis and further management exceptionally challenging. Furthermore, ATAI can also be associated with inferior vena cava injury showing only indirect signs on later imaging. We present an unusual case of traumatic aortic disruption mimicking acute limb ischemia. Cureus 2022-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9700449/ /pubmed/36447709 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30754 Text en Copyright © 2022, Tarafdar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Tarafdar, Swarnava
Lahiri, Raja
Kumar, Ajay
Agarwal, Aakanksha
Sharma, Garima
An Unusual Presentation of a Completely Transected Aorta Presenting As Acute Limb Ischemia With Intramural Thrombus
title An Unusual Presentation of a Completely Transected Aorta Presenting As Acute Limb Ischemia With Intramural Thrombus
title_full An Unusual Presentation of a Completely Transected Aorta Presenting As Acute Limb Ischemia With Intramural Thrombus
title_fullStr An Unusual Presentation of a Completely Transected Aorta Presenting As Acute Limb Ischemia With Intramural Thrombus
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Presentation of a Completely Transected Aorta Presenting As Acute Limb Ischemia With Intramural Thrombus
title_short An Unusual Presentation of a Completely Transected Aorta Presenting As Acute Limb Ischemia With Intramural Thrombus
title_sort unusual presentation of a completely transected aorta presenting as acute limb ischemia with intramural thrombus
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9700449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36447709
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30754
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