Initial Experiences in Management of Blunt Aortic Injury Taking Associated Brain Injury Into Consideration

Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury

Introduction Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury (BTAI) refers to tearing of the wall of the aorta, a serious, often fatal, injury that occurs during severe automobile collisions. BTAI is one of the most common causes of death in road traffic accidents [1], and may be caused by other impacts, such as in fall victims. Despite 150 years of speculation on the subject, however, there is still widespread ...

Blunt aortic injury.

From the Divisions of Vascular Surgery (D.G.N., W.R.F.) and Cardiac Surgery (B.P.G.), Department of Surgery, and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (T.M.S.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Address reprint requests to Dr. Neschis at the Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, 22 S. Greene St., Rm. N4W66, Baltimore, MD 21201, or at dneschis@...

Unusual blunt aortic trauma injury.

Blunt Cardiac Injury in Trauma Patients with Thoracic Aortic Injury

Trauma patients with thoracic aortic injury (TAI) suffer blunt cardiac injury (BCI) at variable frequencies. This investigation aimed to determine the frequency of BCI in trauma patients with TAI and compare with those without TAI. All trauma patients with TAI who had admission electrocardiography (ECG) and serum creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) from January 1999 to May 2009 were included as a study ...

Optic nerve injury-associated blunt cerebrovascular injury

RATIONALE Blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) is a rare complication that may occur after craniocervical trauma. The current literature is limited to extracranial carotid artery injuries; however, no reports have been published on blunt intracranial carotid injury (BICI), especially those associated with optic nerve injury. PATIENT CONCERNS Here we report on 3 BICI cases that demonstrated opt...