Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Injury in a Three-Year-Old Patient: A Case Report

Management of a traumatic ruptured aorta in the pediatric population is quite challenging. Options vary, with each having its own morbidity, and include open repair, endovascular stent grafts, and/or anti-impulse therapy. Although endovascular stenting is an emerging management modality in traumatic...

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Published inCurēus (Palo Alto, CA) Vol. 14; no. 12; p. e33117
Main Authors AlSayyari, Tarfah, Almatar, Zahra, AlShomar, Abdulaziz, Alnamshan, Mohammad
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Cureus Inc 30.12.2022
Cureus
Subjects
Anticoagulants
Blood pressure
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Case reports
Chemotherapy
Children & youth
Coronary vessels
Fatalities
Head injuries
Hematoma
Military reserves
Mortality
Ostomy
Paralysis
Patients
Pediatric Surgery
Pediatrics
Pseudoaneurysm
Trauma
Vascular surgery
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh Saudi Arabia
aortic injury
aortic trauma
traumatic aortic injury
blunt thoracic trauma
pediatric
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Summary:Management of a traumatic ruptured aorta in the pediatric population is quite challenging. Options vary, with each having its own morbidity, and include open repair, endovascular stent grafts, and/or anti-impulse therapy. Although endovascular stenting is an emerging management modality in traumatic aortic injury in adults, open repair is still the gold standard in the pediatric population. In this case, we reported the survival of a three-year-old boy who underwent successful surgical repair with a Dacron graft and anastomosis after an acute traumatic thoracic aortic pseudoaneurysm with mediastinal hematoma.
ISSN:2168-8184
2168-8184
DOI:10.7759/cureus.33117