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01.02.2014 | Clinical Image
Acute Aortic Dissection Presenting as Painless Paraplegia
Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Ausgabe 2/2014
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A 60-year-old man with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and a prior abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in 1995 presented with sudden weakness of both legs. His blood pressure was 91/56 mmHg, his pulse was 107 beats/min, and he had flaccid paraplegia with a spinal sensory level at T6. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thoracic spinal cord showed no lesion. Chest and abdominal computed tomography (CT) with contrast showed a large Type B dissecting aortic aneurysm (Figs. 1 and 2). The following day, he developed acute renal failure requiring hemodialysis, as the dissection extended into his right renal artery. The patient was medically managed and died one week later.
Figure 1.
Axial thoraco-abdominal CT showing a large dissecting aneurysm (with true [asterisk] and false [white arrows] lumens).
Figure 2.
Coronal chest CT demonstrating a large dissecting aneurysm (with true [asterisk] and false [white arrows] lumens).
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