title: Endovascular treatment of blunt traumatic abdominal aortic occlusion with kissing stent placement.
abstract: Blunt traumatic abdominal aortic dissection is extremely rare and potentially deadly. We present the case of a 62-year-old man involved in a frontal car crash. After emergency undergoing laparotomy for bowel injuries, he was referred to our hospital due to acute ischemia of bilateral lower extremities on day 3 after the trauma. Computed tomography and aortography showed an aortobiiliac dissection with complete occlusion. This injury was successfully treated by endovascular treatment with "kissing"-technique stent placement, which appears to be a safe, effective, and minimally invasive treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Center for Endovascular Therapy, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe, Japan. idoguchi@ares.eonet.ne.jp
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Idoguchi
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Yoshikatsu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: Kazuro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimura
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okita
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography; D003287:Contrast Media; D057510:Endovascular Procedures; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media