title: Successful surgical treatment of descending aorta interruption in a 29-year-old woman with acute paraplegia and subarachnoid hemorrhage: a case report.
abstract: Interruption of the descending aorta is an extremely rare great vessel malformation. In this report, we describe a very unusual case of a 29-year-old female with a 13-year history of hypertension who was found to have an interruption of the descending aorta when she was hospitalized with a subarachnoid hemorrhage and symptoms of acute paraplegia. We successfully surgically corrected the defect using a Gore-Tex® graft to bypass the aortic interruption. The patient's blood pressure postoperatively returned to normal, and the patient recovered completely from her paraplegia by the time of her 5-month follow-up visit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Haikou Affiliated hospital of Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Haikou, 570208, China. 1850244686@qq.com.
authors.forename: Shutang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Haikou Affiliated hospital of Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Haikou, 570208, China. zhihengwang1976@126.com.
authors.forename: Zhiheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Haikou Affiliated hospital of Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Haikou, 570208, China. 850607420@qq.com.
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Haikou Affiliated hospital of Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Haikou, 570208, China. 714203608@qq.com.
authors.forename: Hongdu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Haikou Affiliated hospital of Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Haikou, 570208, China. nee3000@163.com.
authors.forename: Huanwei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhuang
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Haikou Affiliated hospital of Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Haikou, 570208, China. savage_jun@163.com.
authors.forename: Xianjun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Haikou Affiliated hospital of Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Haikou, 570208, China. 304782014@qq.com.
authors.forename: Liming
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: US Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Linköping Heart Center, Linköping, Sweden. yanqiyang_lio@yahoo.se.
authors.forename: Yanqi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D054079:Vascular Malformations / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*