Traumatic aortic transection.
We report three cases of patients with blunt thoracic trauma, who underwent transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) because of high index of clinical suspicion for acute traumatic aortic syndrome. TEE revealed three different locations of aortic injury one of which was not diagnosed with aortography.
Zissimopoulos
Iraklis
I
Department of Cardiology, Asclepion Voulas Hospital, Athens, Greece. izisimop@yahoo.gr
Tsoukas
Athanasios
A
Koliandris
Ioannis
I
Christakos
Stamatios
S
D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*