[Thoracic aortic transection following blunt trauma: two case reports]

Acute aortic transection after blunt trauma is a clinical situation, with a high mortality. When the other system injuries are predominant, the diagnosis could be possible only if it would be considered. These type of cases are usually die. The survivors are generally the cases of whom be diagnosed incidentally. Two cases who were admitted to our clinic due to falling down (suicide attempt) were diagnosed as aortic transection and were immediately operated. End to end graft interpositions were performed by using left atrio-femoral bypass in one patient and femoro-femoral bypass in the other. Systemic examinations of all the patients who are referred to the hospital after blunt trauma should be done completely and the physician should be alert for possible aortic transection or dissection.