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TRAUMATIC RUPTURE OF THE THORACIC AORTA
Author(s) -
Stafford Greg,
O'Brien Mark F.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1977.tb04262.x
Subject(s) - medicine , aortography , heart bypass , thoracic aorta , aorta , cardiopulmonary bypass , surgery , aortic rupture , mediastinum , shunt (medical) , great vessels , radiology , cardiology , aortic aneurysm
Eleven patients with aortic rupture secondary to non‐penetrating thoracic trauma, recent in four patients and of longer standing in seven, have been operated upon. Every patient with an acute injury had a widened medlastinum in the chest skiagram. The diagnosis of traumatic rupture was made by aortography in each case. The operative procedure involved cardiopulmonary bypass, left heart bypass or aorta to aorta bypass shunt. There was one postoperative death. It is recommended that in the acute stage a rupture of the aorta secondary to trauma should be repaired as soon as possible, while ruptures of long standing should be electively repaired.