title: Intermittent ischemia caused by dissection of the abdominal aorta through myxoid degeneration. Case report.
abstract: Acute intermittent ischemia is generally caused by altered vasomotion and rarely by aortic dissection. There is reported a case of dissection of the abdominal aorta which presented a mixoid degeneration of the inner wall. The surgical finding was similar to a medio intimal aortic cylinder obtained generally during endarterectomy. Five years after the operation (endarterectomy of the mixoid cylinder) the patient presents a good patency of the aortoiliac area.
mesh_terms: D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000473:pathology*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007383:Intermittent Claudication / Q000209:etiology; D007511:Ischemia / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged