Acute paraperisis due to acute aortic thrombosis in young adult a mysterious case

Acute abdominal aortic occlusion is an infrequent, vascular condition that requires emergency surgery. It should be managed promptly due to its fatal outcome.Thrombosis of abdominal aorta is usually insidious onset.Most cases of aortic thrombosis occur in fifth to sixth decades of life but the condition has been reported in patients as young as 29 years.1 In majority of cases thrombosis is secondary to atherosclerosis or embolism. Less commonly, thrombosis may occur in the sac of an aneurysm and after syphilitic aortitis,2 pressure by tumors,3 pelvic peritonitis, and irradiation to the abdomen and/or cardiovascular procedure and trauma.. The following description of a case of aortic thrombosis occurring in a young adult man is of interest because the thrombosis without atheroscrosis and any predisposing condition, is rarely reported.