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Paraparesis following emergency room thoracotomy: case report
C Connery1, E Geller, S Dulchavsky
1Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794-8191.
The Journal of Trauma
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
Spinal cord ischemia complicating resuscitative aortic occlusion is reported in a patient requiring emergency thoracotomy and aortic cross-clamping following a stab wound to the heart. Paraparesis and ischemic myelopathy were documented in the absence of associated injury. The possible contribution of systemic hypotension to spinal cord ischemia following aortic occlusion is suggested.