Blunt aortic injury in a patient with prior coronary artery bypass surgery
Joseph Rabin1, Albert Chi, David G Neschis
1R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center and the Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. jrabin1@umm.edu
Abstract:
Traumatic aortic rupture is a significant challenge, further complicated by prior coronary artery bypass graft surgery with a left internal mammary artery anastomosis. We present a patient with prior coronary artery bypass graft and valve replacement who sustained multiple injuries, including an aortic rupture, after a motor vehicle crash. This report describes successful treatment of a patient with a thoracic endograft and carotid subclavian bypass to preserve the left internal mammary artery inflow.
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