Sudden-Onset Paraplegia: A Unique Presentation of Acute Aortic Dissection (AD)

Aortic dissection (AD) is a rare but deadly diagnosis that emergency medicine physicians must consider in a wide variety of patient presentations. This case report describes a 42-year-old male bull rider who developed acute-onset bilateral lower extremity paralysis and loss of sensation. He was late...

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Autores principales: Campa, Monica R, Danboise, Brook, Cambron, John D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9814824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36618498
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33389
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description Aortic dissection (AD) is a rare but deadly diagnosis that emergency medicine physicians must consider in a wide variety of patient presentations. This case report describes a 42-year-old male bull rider who developed acute-onset bilateral lower extremity paralysis and loss of sensation. He was later found to have a type A Stanford AD during his emergency department evaluation.
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spelling pubmed-98148242023-01-06 Sudden-Onset Paraplegia: A Unique Presentation of Acute Aortic Dissection (AD) Campa, Monica R Danboise, Brook Cambron, John D Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Aortic dissection (AD) is a rare but deadly diagnosis that emergency medicine physicians must consider in a wide variety of patient presentations. This case report describes a 42-year-old male bull rider who developed acute-onset bilateral lower extremity paralysis and loss of sensation. He was later found to have a type A Stanford AD during his emergency department evaluation. Cureus 2023-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9814824/ /pubmed/36618498 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33389 Text en Copyright © 2023, Campa 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.
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Sudden-Onset Paraplegia: A Unique Presentation of Acute Aortic Dissection (AD)
title Sudden-Onset Paraplegia: A Unique Presentation of Acute Aortic Dissection (AD)
title_full Sudden-Onset Paraplegia: A Unique Presentation of Acute Aortic Dissection (AD)
title_fullStr Sudden-Onset Paraplegia: A Unique Presentation of Acute Aortic Dissection (AD)
title_full_unstemmed Sudden-Onset Paraplegia: A Unique Presentation of Acute Aortic Dissection (AD)
title_short Sudden-Onset Paraplegia: A Unique Presentation of Acute Aortic Dissection (AD)
title_sort sudden-onset paraplegia: a unique presentation of acute aortic dissection (ad)
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9814824/
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