title: Paraplegia following the emergency surgical repair of a nonruptured symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm: report of a case.
abstract: This report presents an extremely rare case of paraplegia following emergency surgery for a nonruptured symptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm. A 62-year-old man underwent an emergency surgical repair for a symptomatic nonruptured infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm. On postoperative day 2 paraplegia following spinal cord ischemia occurred at the T8 level. The site of the ischemia was situated too high for clamping to have caused this condition, unless the patient had a congenital anomaly in the blood supply to the spinal cord or it had been caused by the previously occluded great radicular artery, which was maintained by the collateral blood supply from the iliac circulation.
authors: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujita Health University, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan.
authors: Masato
authors: M
authors: Tochii
authors: Yasushi
authors: Y
authors: Takagi
authors: Ryo
authors: R
authors: Hoshino
authors: Mitsuru
authors: M
authors: Yamashita
authors: Masato
authors: M
authors: Sato
authors: Kan
authors: K
authors: Kaneko
authors: Michiko
authors: M
authors: Ishida
authors: Toru
authors: T
authors: Watanabe
authors: Kiyotoshi
authors: K
authors: Akita
authors: Hiroshi
authors: H
authors: Kondo
authors: Yoshiro
authors: Y
authors: Higuchi
authors: Takashi
authors: T
authors: Watanabe
authors: Motomi
authors: M
authors: Ando
mesh_terms: D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply*; D020760:Spinal Cord Ischemia / Q000209:etiology*