title: Spontaneous dissection of common iliac artery. A case report.
abstract: Spontaneous dissection of the iliac artery is very rare but known as a complication of high-energy traumatic injuries and has been reported in connection with pregnancy, collagen diseases, and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency. The authors report a 42-year-old man with an acute dissection of the common iliac artery during exercise. Groin pain and claudication were the early symptoms. Computerized angiotomography was diagnostic. Operative iliac artery reconstruction was performed. A prerelease control computed tomography examination showed a dissection of the distal aorta and left iliac artery. To their knowledge, the combination of the 2 dissections has not been previously published.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. hannu.savolainen@insel.ch
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Savolainen
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Heller
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fleischmann
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Widmer
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Carrel
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schmidli
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D017543:Iliac Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D013550:Swimming; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed